[mythtv-users] Have to start shows twice -- database problem???

[Mike Perkins]

On 25/02/13 17:18, Allen Edwards wrote:
>
> I was going to do the new drive update method.  I even have the new 2T
> drive sitting right here next to me.  Then I got thinking about all the
> upgrading I would need to do.
>
> 1) The Squeezebox server.
> 2) The VM Windows server running Windows XP under Linux
> 3) Fan speed control
> 4) CPU Power control
> 5) Custom myth menus to run Chrome and the fire off VM
> 6) Setting it up so the projector and the TV and the computer monitor all
> work
> 7) Getting sound to both the TV (stereo) and the Surround system (4.1)
> 8) Setting up the IR remote, which controls the TV, Projector, HiFi, room
> lights, and Myth
> 9) The things I forgot that I did
>
> Even getting Linux to boot on my MB was a huge pain.  I think that took me
> about week.  At one point I called ASUS and the advice I got was to buy an
> Intel MB (I have AMD).  The solution was to mess with the order that things
> are done in the boot process.  I wish I could remember what I did.
>
> To that I could add the things that are now easy, setting up Myth...
>
> The bottom line is that the system worked perfectly for several years so
> something changed and if I can just fix that, we will be happy.
>
Things have moved on, as they say. I suspect that if you decide to upgrade your 
OS then you'll likely find that things you had to wrestle with back in the day 
just work 'right out of the box' now.

My advice: don't upgrade. Take this as an opportunity to rethink your whole 
setup. After all, the last time you did this was 0.21, right? Look at new 
motherboards. You'll probably find a new one that will be cheaper and take half 
the power (or less) while giving you the same (or more) grunt.

The newest versions of operating system will likely make your life easier as 
well. Case in point: Xorg, which now does much of the configuration by itself, 
meaning you don't need to (for most of us.. there's always one or two!).

You shouldn't even need to set up your remote again, unless it *all* runs 
through your myth system. The new myth instance is all that should need to 
re-learn your IR commands, after all. Did I mention that Infra-Red handling is 
now different in the newer kernels?

-- 

Mike Perkins