I had a crash over the weekend after running an apt-get update. The system started doing some odd things then wouldn't display the main menu or knoppmyth desktop on reboot. This was as good excuse as any to re-install the system with the latest version. I have listed some of the steps i took, as well as problems and solutions below, in case anyone finds this useful. I have noticed a couple of problems with this install since I got it working that I havent been able to resolve - firstly the time stretch feature is not adjusting the pitch, making it unusable, and secondly the "change channels immediately without select" option in Utilities/Setup - Setup - TV Settings - General is ignored. I prefer to press the select button to change the channel, and this now does not work.
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Installed from CD - this left the system bootable into the MythTV menu on a PC monitor. Follow the install guide here for more info.
FIX FOR AUSTRALIAN TV-LISTINGS
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After initial configuration mythfilldatabase appears to run successfully, however when you go into the program schedule you don't see any programs at all. The database is probably OK if you used the default grabber that came knoppmyth, it appears that the process doesn't set the channel numbers and frequency ids when it runs. Go back into mythtv-setup and go into the channels area - set these values manually then restart mythfrontend and the program information should now be available.
CONFIGURE IR REMOTE SUPPORT
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From a command line:
>> /etc/init.d/lirc start && update-rc.d lirc defaults
CONFIGURE DVD PLAYBACK
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Unencrypted DVD's should play back OK - to add support for playing encrypted DVD's execute the following from a command line
>> cd /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples
>> sh install-css.sh
INSTALL NVIDA DRIVERS
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Only needed if you're using an NVIDIA graphics card.
>> cd /usr/local/bin
>> sh install-nvidia-7174-debian.sh
GET TV OUT WORKING FROM THE PVR-350
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Followed then instructions here (summarised below)
The X windows FB device driver no longer appears to work, so you'll need the pvr350 ivtv device driver.
> su
# cd /tmp
# wget http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz
# gunzip ivtvdev_drv.o.gz
# install -c -m 0444 ivtvdev_drv.o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
CONFIGURE SAMBA
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Allow access to the machine from a windows network
>> su
>> update-rc.d samba defaults
CONFIGURE MYTHWEB PASSWORD
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Do this if you want to force users to enter a password so they can view MythWeb. These instructions were found here on the knoppmyth wiki.
>> nano /etc/apache/httpd.conf
While in nano, press control-w to bring up its search feature. Then search for . Cursor down a few lines until you see the line AllowOverride None. Then add the following lines underneath it:
# Force a password
AuthType Basic
AuthName "BasicAuth"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache/basicauth
Require valid-user
>> htpasswd -c /etc/apache/basicauth mythtv
>> New Password *******
>> Re-type new password ******
OPEN UP MYSQL
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Only do this if you want to be able to access the database from another machine. Comment out the line skip-networking in /etc/mysql/my.cnf then run the following from a command line, replacing 192.168.0.% with the correct IP range for your network the restart MySql
$ mysql -u root mythconverg
mysql> grant all on mythconverg.* to mythtv@"192.168.0.%" identified by "mythtv";
mysql> flush privileges;
ADD REQUIRED ENTRIES TO MODULES
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The following 2 lines need to be added to /etc/modules
lirc_i2c
ivtv_fb
ADD SUPPORT FOR WINDOWS MEDIA 9 FILES
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I use xine as my video player, and found it could not play back WMV9 files. It would throw up an error message when I attempted to play the file.
the command I specified in video setup for xine is:
xine -pfhq %s
to get WMV9 files to play do the following
>> mkdir /usr/lib/win32
add the file wmvdmod.dll from a windows box that can play wmv9 files to this directory.
SETUP THE CORRECT SCREEN SIZE
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The screen size was too big in my initial install, so I just modified the settings table incrementally untill it looked ok. I did this from another PC then after each update just restarted gdm over ssh which made this process fairly easy.
Scripts for updating settings table
update settings set data='53' where value = 'GuiOffsetX'
update settings set data='21' where value = 'GuiOffsetY'
update settings set data='647' where value = 'GuiWidth'
update settings set data='537' where value = 'GuiHeight'
To restart gdm - from a console
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
USEFULL LINKS
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These are some Urls that I used when RTFM'ing
Knoppmyth Install Instructions
Setting up LIRC
Setting up the PVR-350 Thread on knoppmyth forums
Setting up Xine to play DVD's
IVTV PAL TV-Out Guide
NVIDIA Config - General information
Securing MythWeb
