I've currently got a mythbuntu 8.10 system installed consisting of a
backend and 4 frontends one of which is an ATV that I managed to get
up and running a few years ago.
My mythbackend is starting to get problems, I believe the hard disk is
failing. Ideally, I would like to upgrade the backend to
To answer my own question this is what I ended up doing (of course I
spent way too much time on this but now i have a working mythtv 0.24
on my atv - hooray):
1. installed mythtv-0.24 from sources on my backend
2 installed mythtv-0.24 on my atv from sources
3. installed the 0.24 binaries for mac
Hi Richard,
Yes sorry for the line breaks, but they were an unexpected consequence
of posting on this list.
It will be necessary to install the mysql driver for qt for mythtv to
work.
I found the instructions here:
http://prres.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/configure-mysql-database-driver-for-qt/
I should mention that 0.24 mythtv runs much better than 0.21. Even HD
is almost watchable now - it was totally unwatchable previously.
When you get it running on your atv use a slim theme such as
Metalurgy, Media Center or Terra.
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up mythtv
For whatever reason I wasn't able to edit the xfce menu from settings
manager. I got it working by following these obscure directions:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-edit-xfce-menu-612491/
Oliver,
Thanks for your help in getting this working. I had
