[mythtv-users] newbie just starting up mythbuntu

David Sims simsdw56 at comcast.net
Sun Jan 29 01:58:34 UTC 2012


Thanks Nick,

Yeah...I plan on doing mirrored terabyte drives in the future and even
perhaps raid 5.
Just not there yet and want to experiment a little with this software.

Will take a look at those logs and see what I find.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick Rout
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 5:43 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] newbie just starting up mythbuntu

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, David Sims <simsdw56 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hello mythtv-users,
>
> Just trying to get started with mythtv (mythbuntu).
>
> Installed the software from a downloaded ISO.  Has most everything I
needed.
>
> Went through what I thought was the proper setup for the backend and
> frontend.
>
> Looks like channels were found during the frontend setup but I am unable
to
> run live TV.
>
> The frontend terminates after several minutes.

Take a look at your frontend logs:

/var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log

>
> TV tuner/capture device is a USB WinTV-HVR 950Q attached to an external
> antenna.
>
> System has a dual core Intel Celeron processor with 2gb of memory.
>
> Disk drive is a 230gb SATA.
>

You'll want more pretty soon :)

> Anyone have some step by steps on how to set up this first mythbuntu test
> system?
>
> Any assistance would be most appreciated.  Thank you

>
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