Journal Talinom's Journal: MythTV is teh suck (Or my excercise in futility) (Updated) 5
I have busted my ass on getting my MythTV up and running. I have asked questions and have found nothing resembling hope for my situation.
IRC (specifically #mythtv-users on irc.freenode.net) was going to be my saving grace. One of the people who wrote the tveeprom Linux module even allayed my concerns over the newer Hauppauge PVR-150 boards that they do, in point of fact, work. My concern was that the newer blackbird (cx88) chipset was unsupported under Linux.
This bit of positive news cost me $108.79 for a board that does not work with Linux.
So after nuking MythTV more times than I can count (I can field strip that install now) and learning how to configure it as the auto-install feature merely installs things and does not configure much of anything I put WinXP on there to see if the board was defective.
While the install was happening I had time to go mow the lawn, take a long shower and surf the web for a while. After all of that waiting I installed the drivers for the motherboard and the capture card.
It worked perfectly including the remote which they claim works under Linux. I bet the remote actually does work, it just doesn't work with my card as my card doesn't work.
So I had heard that some people had good luck installing the card under Windows when they had issues and the installation would do something "magical" to the card and it would then work under Linux.
No joy in Mudville today kids.
So now I have my tuner card and unless I can get it to work under Linux soon I will need to see if I can return the thing. The only upside to this is that I went to an actual brick-and-mortar store to make returning the thing less painful just in case this sort of thing happened.
So what alternatives might you all suggest that doesn't require Linux? It isn't that I don't know Linux (I cut my teeth on Slackware 2.2.0 back in 1995 and have done admin on many different UNIX systems) it is that it is unreliable with regards to hardware compatibility even when a self proclaimed guru tells you otherwise.
Oh, my post installation routine is as follows:
apt-get update
apt-get install libdvdcss
/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh
/usr/local/bin/install-nvidia-7174-debian.sh
cp --reply=yes /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.nvidia-tvout.sample XF86Config-4
Edit XF86Config-4's TVOverScan to be = to "0.4"
vi /etc/crontab and add the following line
0 4 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ntp.knowledge.or.id
Oh, and all I had left to do was to get the tuner card working and fine tune my remote control's settings (the ATI Remote Wonder is what I have been using and it works OK using the default install) then I would have been able to put this box into use in the living room.
P.S.
Does anyone know how to hack kernel drivers at the source code level so I can make the damn thing work? No, I'm not a programmer. At all. Not even in a parallel universe. I just need to flail away at this last bit before I toss Linux out the fucking window.
P.P.S.
Overheard on IRC:
for the PVR150, it sometimes won't work right unless you are at full resolution, I think I heard (This coming from one of the regular folks on that channel.)
Changed my RECORDING preference and it now displays the whole picture.
Intuitive ain't it!
Now I just need to make some scripts and get the remote control fully working and I should be a bit better.
IRC (specifically #mythtv-users on irc.freenode.net) was going to be my saving grace. One of the people who wrote the tveeprom Linux module even allayed my concerns over the newer Hauppauge PVR-150 boards that they do, in point of fact, work. My concern was that the newer blackbird (cx88) chipset was unsupported under Linux.
This bit of positive news cost me $108.79 for a board that does not work with Linux.
So after nuking MythTV more times than I can count (I can field strip that install now) and learning how to configure it as the auto-install feature merely installs things and does not configure much of anything I put WinXP on there to see if the board was defective.
While the install was happening I had time to go mow the lawn, take a long shower and surf the web for a while. After all of that waiting I installed the drivers for the motherboard and the capture card.
It worked perfectly including the remote which they claim works under Linux. I bet the remote actually does work, it just doesn't work with my card as my card doesn't work.
So I had heard that some people had good luck installing the card under Windows when they had issues and the installation would do something "magical" to the card and it would then work under Linux.
No joy in Mudville today kids.
So now I have my tuner card and unless I can get it to work under Linux soon I will need to see if I can return the thing. The only upside to this is that I went to an actual brick-and-mortar store to make returning the thing less painful just in case this sort of thing happened.
So what alternatives might you all suggest that doesn't require Linux? It isn't that I don't know Linux (I cut my teeth on Slackware 2.2.0 back in 1995 and have done admin on many different UNIX systems) it is that it is unreliable with regards to hardware compatibility even when a self proclaimed guru tells you otherwise.
Oh, my post installation routine is as follows:
apt-get update
apt-get install libdvdcss
cp --reply=yes
Edit XF86Config-4's TVOverScan to be = to "0.4"
vi
0 4 * * *
Oh, and all I had left to do was to get the tuner card working and fine tune my remote control's settings (the ATI Remote Wonder is what I have been using and it works OK using the default install) then I would have been able to put this box into use in the living room.
P.S.
Does anyone know how to hack kernel drivers at the source code level so I can make the damn thing work? No, I'm not a programmer. At all. Not even in a parallel universe. I just need to flail away at this last bit before I toss Linux out the fucking window.
P.P.S.
Overheard on IRC:
for the PVR150, it sometimes won't work right unless you are at full resolution, I think I heard (This coming from one of the regular folks on that channel.)
Changed my RECORDING preference and it now displays the whole picture.
Intuitive ain't it!
Now I just need to make some scripts and get the remote control fully working and I should be a bit better.
one word (Score:2)
Re:one word (Score:2)
Yes, the "easy to install" version. The only problem is that while the installation is easy the configuration is a hack. Plus the signal to noise ratio sucks when trying to find out information on say mythtv transcode OR transcoding [google.com].
Try searching for how to get your DVD to play. KnoppMythWiki (a site for "answers") has only one place where it is answered. Searching for MythTV dvd [google.com] produces about 109,000 results. Understanding that the problem is linux related on not MythTV related
Re:one word (Score:2)
I am hopeful that in the next release they have that working so I don't have to go through a compile again.
I used this (Score:2)
This guy knew what he was doing. I tried to use 3 other set-ups and had no luck with my hardware (including KnoppMyth). I got my TV oout working after learning not to use the "nv" driver (thanks, btw). The only thing I haven't got working is my Packard Bell Serial Remote, but every group I've read has said that the remote is crap and to get the ATI remote.
I LURVE my MythTV. It roxxers my boxxers.
-Ab
Re:I used this (Score:2)
After braving the pain that is Hauppauge I have to say that I like my remote. I got it working and am hopeful that the next release of KnoppMyth has that in there.
The ATI Remote Wonder has the dual advantage of mostly working out of the box with