Mythtv gentoo install

Login once using mythtv session the one you just created as the default session. Mythfrontend should now load automatically on boot.

See this section of the MythTV documentation on how to remove unwanted channels. If you are using the DataDirect service, simply unchecking channels in your online profile removes them from your lineup. If you are still using XMLTV, make sure you also put not in front of your channels in the xmltv file.

Removing unwanted channels will speed up the xmltv update mythfilldatabase and you won't have to search through tons of channels that you don't get anyways for movie listings, etc. To perform a mass deletion of a range of channels quickly from both the channel listing and program listing, first find the proper channel ID and then perform the MySQL delete command below.

For example, I want to delete channels between and The channel IDs for those channels are and respectively on my system, thus issuing this SQL statement will delete channel and program entries:. To play all of our classic games, we can use the MythGame frontend. Unfortunately, MythGame isn't very usable in it's current state in my experience from 0. Note: You don't have to be in mythfrontend for the backend to record! With that being said, you can still exit the mythfrontend and play your roms that you physically own, of course using a terminal.

Emerge the following:. You may encounter compilation errors dealing with GL header files. If so, you need to issue opengl-update xfree before emerging the emulators. Make sure that you have specified apache2 in your USE flags. To speed things up, we should enable php zlib compression. Now add apache2 to the default services and start it. Apache2 takes a while to start for the first time to generate Digest information. You should now be able to access your myth box through a browser pointing at its IP address, e.

To restrict access to MythWeb, you can add authentication via htaccess. To do so, edit the file. Type in a password for the mythtv user. Next, I used irrecord to capture as many keys as I could. It works nicely. If you want the lircd.

With enough requests, I may make them downloadable here. First you need to patch ivtv and install an additional X driver. Download the prepdma patch into the ivtv directory.

If you want to use the ivtv framebuffer for it's picture sharpness, hardware MPEG decoding, and full NTSC resolution and working overscan , then you need to modify your ivtv modules file and XF86Config Run update-modules. Run lspci -v. You should see something like this:.

Take note of the first set of numbers. In my example it is " You need to convert this into hexadecimal. Since there is no number greater than 9, we don't have to do any conversion. Make sure your framebuffer device is correctly referenced. Update: Official mythtv 0. However, you still have to upgrade the mysql database properly and perform a mythsetup. With the new release of 0. Follow these steps to get your MythTV functioning under 0.

First we need to back up our database just in case something goes wrong:. Now head on over to labs. Next we need to create a copy of our channel table. Don't miss out on the official guides! Category:Ubuntu - All internal Ubuntu pages. Now discontinued. Fedora is a very popular distro. Category:Fedora - All internal pages on Fedora. A detailed remote page also exists. Historical information is available at the, now defunct, " MythDora " distribution.

Currently MythTV is not in the main Debian repositories, current plan is to get 0. Until this happens the best way is to follow the guide to building your own. There are also several Debian pages in this wiki. They guide you through the process so it is painless. I copied the mainmenu. I edited it there to add the button. This way it will not be changed with updates to myth. From myth, click the menu button you just created. You will probably need a keyboard and for sure a mouse to actually select the movie.

Click on Full Screen and enjoy the movie. You can suspend the session by clicking on the "X" in the top VMware Player control panel that shows up when the mouse goes to the center top of the screen. In this way the session will continue when you start next time, even if in the middle of a movie. For a normal shutdown, shutdown windows like you would on any windows computer.

Note: I consider this part out of date but leave it here until I get the above method fully documented. I recently installed Netflix and can now watch streaming movies in Ubuntu. An actual non-root user should be used with mythfrontend. A database will need to be set up before the MythTV backend can be started. The following command will set up the MythTV database using the emerge config phase, this will require a root user and password for the database.

This GUI can setup:. Execute the setup program to configure MythTV. The documentation for MythTV is a good reference at this point.