<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Johnny Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnnyjboss@gmail.com">johnnyjboss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:57 AM, Joe Friedrich <<a href="mailto:pennstatejoe74@gmail.com">pennstatejoe74@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm in my 5th month of my conversion to Linux. Having some troubles setting up a MythTV system and hoping for a push in the right direction from one of you fine folks. My equipment details are below.<br>
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> I'm trying to get HD-PVR working for recording and live TV. From what I've heard, this is one of the most difficult setups to configure. I think I will have the most success with compiling my own MythTV install as I believe there are some patches that need to be applied that I read about on the wiki. I'm writing to the group because as someone new to this, its difficult to decipher the age of some of the materials I've come across in the wiki's the forums, and the mail archives and whether or not they're still necessary in newer versions of Ubuntu and MythTV.<br>
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</div>You no longer need to compile MythTv from source to use the HD-PVR.<br>
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Just follow the steps located here - <a href="http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds" target="_blank">http://www.mythbuntu.org/auto-builds</a><br>
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Install the deb file (really easy) and then don't forget to check for<br>
and install updates.<br>
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Except, if he *really* wants to use LiveTV (which I *really* don't recommend), then he will need to apply the extra patches listed on the wiki:<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/HDPVR">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/HDPVR</a><br>
<br>Or does mythbuntu merge those automatically?<br><br><br>John<br>-- <br>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.<br>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?<br>