Darius Hardy wrote:
[various edits made to keep things brief]
The whole point is that MythTV really needs to know what channel your
cable box is showing, it can't do that if it can't control the box.
I see. So if I feed it (say) a vcr that happens to contain 'x' as its
input, it won't let me record it. Unless I lie and say it is
channel/program 'y'. And what happens when the broadcaster doesn't exist
n the web/gets the data wrong?
MythTV works very well... It just _has_ to be set up first!
Well, my point is that as a 'consumer', I don't want to know all of that
complex stuff. I want it to 'just work'.
Erm, not with anything like what MythTV gives you, the windows software
is a basic VCR, if you want that MythTV is not for you.
I see no reason why it should not _also_ work as a basic vcr.
The basic UK set-up gives you just about everything you need. You have
to tell it which channels you're subscribed to but that takes all of
about half an hour (you'll need to know the xmltvid names that
radiotimes uses for each channel [tv_grab_uk_rt --list-channels] gives
you them - they look like URLs.)
I figured I should be able to use it just record the current input
stream - much like a vcr. But it doesn't seem to work that way.
MythTV isn't a VCR, it's a PVR - it relies on knowing what is on and when.
Ok. I still don't think it should be an essential. But if thats what it
is then thats what it is.
If you've not set it up properly it won't know which (radiotimes)
channel maps to which (in Myth).
Does this give any more clues? Is the 'record' function really
predicated on the channel info being available?
Yes because when you tell it to record it uses the tv-guide to know when
the program ends.
Once you've got it set up you'll never go back ;-) A few hours fiddling
around is really worth it!
I would say its consumed a lot more than a few hours. And I'm a software
engineer with a fair bit of linux experience. How many non-software
engineers get it working?
Finally, thanks to those people who replied, it gives me (some) hope.
-- Andrew
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