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MythTV QUICKSTART
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This Arch Linux package provides a generic MythTV installation. It
requires extensive user configuration. This is a skeletal document, and
more extensive information is available in /usr/share/mythtv/docs.
MythTV is split into a backend and a frontend. The backend records
television programming, keeps up with scheduling, does commercial
flagging, transcoding, and other such jobs. The frontend provides a
pretty GUI which allows playback and edition of the recorded programs.
It also provides a means to schedule recordings. There are a number of
plugins available for MythTV, and most of the official ones are
available as Arch packages. There are two configurations; the backend
and frontend can be on the same machine, or on two different machines on
the same network.
Backend Configuration
---------------------
MythTV keeps the majority of its settings and program information in a
mysql database. Before running the backend configuration program, it is
necessary to initialize the datase. Make sure mysql is running properly.
# mysql < /usr/share/mythtv/mc.sql
If your frontend is going to be remote, you must allow other computers
on your network to have access to your database. Substitute 192.168.1.%
with whatever IP range you use. If you have a root mysql password (as
you should), leave the -p in the mysql command line. Otherwise remove
the switch.
# mysql -u root -p
mysql> connect mythconverg;
mysql> grant all on mythconverg.* to mythtv@"192.168.1.%" identified by "mythtv";
mysql> flush privileges;
mysql> quit
In order to configure the MythTV backend, you will need to run the
mythtv-setup program. Note that this requires X. If your backend is
headless, considering using vnc as a quick and dirty "fix".
# mythtv-setup
Go through all the menus. You will need to know information like your
capture card device (/dev/v4l/video[0-9]) and your program information
acquisition method. United States users will most likely subscribe to
Zap2it Labs' DataDirect service. It requires that users take a survey
every three months in order to continue service. This isn't as hard as
it sounds.
It is necessary to update the database with all the current TV listings.
Run the mythfilldatabase program to grab the listings using whatever
method you specified in mythtv-setup.
# mythfilldatabase
Run mythbackend from the command line to make sure everything starts ok.
# mythbackend
If so, you may kill the task with "ctrl-c" on your keyboard, and add the
backend to /etc/rc.conf. In the DAEMONS line, just add "mythbackend" to
the list.
In the future, you will need to run mythfilldatabase regularly. I allow
my frontend computer to do this, as it runs continuously, and it is an
option within MythTV. Otherwise, you can set up a cron job, or move
mythfilldatabasecron to /etc/cron.daily
cp /usr/share/mythtv/mythfilldatabasecron /etc/cron.daily
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