Here's a set of notes I took on installation of mythbuntu. I didn't get screen shots but rest assured the install and much of the heavy lifting is done through Ubuntu-like well thought through design and guis. Tweaking mythtv itself is done through the usual configuration screens.
These instruction stop short of actually setting up the MythTV backend. That would be the goal of Thursday, which is trying to get people's back end working with the subscription source, and recording channels OTA. Hopefully when you take your boxes back home you will understand enough of how the back end works so that you can hook up your cable box and get it to work fairly smooth. Once I had the cd burnt, it took me about 60 minutes from start to finish with these instructions. The X86_64 version of Mythbuntu seemed to work really well with the PVR-500. Mythbuntu installs the ivtv drivers for the Hauppauge PVR-X series -- which work pretty well. There was some noise off the MPEG-2 cards, but after using the MPEG4 transcoder, the recordings really cleared up. Apparently ivtv has had driver conflicts in the past with some other DVB cards such as the pchdtv-3000. Also the cheapest HDTV card that will work is the AverMedia A180 for about $86. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/AVerTV_HD_A180 ------- Boot up into the CD. The live CD didn't detect all the video hardware so you can't count on it to work for your setup. When the CD boots "select start or Install mythbuntu" icon. Double click on "Install Mythbuntu" Language: Select English (or whatever makes sense for you) Timezone: Select America/New York Keyboard layout: Select US English keyboard Select Manual Disk Layout (if you want XFS or special layouts) otherwise choose Guided (which will use ext3) For manual do something similar (assuming a 500 GB drive): New ~ 30 GB ext partition for / New ~ 2 * Ram for swap New ~ 468 GB xfs partition for /var/lib/mythtv Use something like the following to create the user. User: Myth Front End User logon: myth passwd: != mythtv hostname: MythTV (or something) Note: logon of "mythtv" is already reserved by the OS. Choose "Standard installation" which will get you pretty much everything you would want. If you want the advanced features you can always install them later Install the system, and go get a cup of coffee. On my box this takes 5 minutes (!). Before you reboot a window will prompt you to enter the schedules direct and allows you to run MythTV setup If you want to get myth working before you commit actual money, then go ahead and reboot. Otherwise go ahead and get the schedules direct account. The MythTV setup should be done later when you're actually booted into the box, since the LiveCD may not have all the drivers. click Finish and reboot Before reboot, Mythbuntu will prompt you to take out the disc and press enter Boot into the new system and it should automatically start the front end. Ignore the notice about restricted drivers available (for now) Language: Select English (or which ever locality you prefer) Esc to exit from the myth front end Applications -> mythbuntu control center type myth user passwd passwd [Possible bug: mythbuntu CD may have to be in the drive, otherwise it gives no notice of an error) ] Applications & plugins -> enable/disable all plugins ( and set passwd for mythweb) Proprietary Drivers -> launch restricted driver manager if you want / need System Services -> enable/disable vnc/ssh/samba/nfs/mysql Proprietary Codecs -> enable proprietary codecs. (hit apply) and then you can select the codecs that you want to install (apply again) if you're in 64 bit mode, you can't install the 32 bit codecs. advanced management -> launch update manager and get updates Also check all three mysql options. (apply) Also you can launch mythtv backend setup from there as well Run the backend setup from Appications -> backend setup Ok the next to dialogs (adding mythtv group to the myth logon user) Log out Log back in (esc to close the front end) And start setting up the Backend. _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
