[mythtv-users] Does MythTV support HD video and media libraries

[Nicolas Will]

On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 15:40 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Igor Chudov <igor at chudov.com> wrote:
>         First let me say that installation of MythTV under Ubuntu 8.10
>         is not
>         exactly straightforward. I am a sysadmin with years of Linux
>         and MySQL
>         experience, and yet installing that stuff (via apt-get) and
>         then
>         configuring was a big pain. After about an hour of screwing
>         around, I
>         finally realized that it did not set up any database or
>         permissions
>         and was able to just configure MySQL databases by hand by
>         issuing
>         various "create database" and "grant" commands, editing
>         mysql.txt,
>         etc, something that I think the distro should do. Anyhow, this
>         is
>         mostly a complaint about Ubuntu. I think that I got that to
>         work.
> 
> You may have wanted to refer to the documentation:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html
> 
> It's pretty clear on the MySQL requirements and how to set up the
> initial databases.
>  
> 

Ubuntu Universe packages do install the DB properly.

refer to the Ubuntu wiki and use Mythbuntu Control Center as the start
package.

Nico