[mythtv-users] I set up my MythTV system the hard way!

[Dan Ritter]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:01:09AM -0400, Darryl Hirschler wrote:
> I am a Linux and MythTV newbie.  I fooled around with Mythbuntu, and not
> really sure why I decided to do this, but I decided to abandon Mythbuntu
> and go at it from scratch.  So I did the following:

Because it's good to learn things by doing them?

> And I still have things I need to work out such as:
> 
> - I still have to configure LIRC for my remote

Should be well-documented.

> - I have to figure out permissions between "mythtv" user, "darryl" user,
> and "root".  I am still a little confused by some of this.  Currently,
> "darryl" can launch myth-backend and start mythtv, but "mythtv" user
> cannot.

I would look at group membership and permissions.

> - disable the screen saver

In the HowTo

> - make it auto-login (to the "mythtv" user?)

In the HowTo

> - make it auto-launch MythTV

In the HowTo

> - figure out why digital TV is stuttering

Might be source, might be playback. If it's playback, using XVMC
on an NVidia card might help.

> - find out if it is at all possible to configure Myth to use the
> HVR-1600

Sorta. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HVR-1600

Isn't it fun when you can see how it works?

-dsr-

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