[mythtv-users] mp3 player only

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Jun 19 13:24:13 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 18 June 2003 08:25 pm, Damien Hull wrote:
> How do I go about doing this? I haven't downloaded anything yet but I
> plan on giving this a try this Friday.

It's a tad complicated for the last release (you have to comment out a line in 
the source code), but rather easy with current CVS (a couple friends only 
want to use the music, video, and games bits, so I figured I'd make it easy 
on them):

With 0.9:
mythfrontend doesn't like to run without talking to the backend server (which 
is only used for TV recording for now), so a small code modification is 
necessary to disable this.  There's a line in programs/mythfrontend/main.cpp:
gContext->ConnectServer(server, port);
Just comment that out.

Install mythtv as normal, following the howto.  You can skip all the backend 
setup stuff.

Install mythmusic.

Run mythfrontend, go into the setup page and configure mythmusic for your 
system (set the directory it'll look for music in, etc).  Should be all set 
from then on..  If you don't want the TV option in the main menu, you can 
just remove it by editing it out of /usr/local/share/mythtv/mainmenu.xml

With current CVS:
Install mythtv as normal, skip the backend (tv card) setup.
Install mythmusic.
Run mythfrontend, configure mythmusic, etc.

Isaac


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