MythTV

Tips on using the MythTV Backend app:

• Useful to run it as mythtvsetup --geometry 1024x720 so that you can see the messages in the launch window in the background (assuming your screen is larger than 1024x720)
• When connecting a source to an input (e.g. comcast to an HDHomeRun in my case), fetch channels from listing source only works *after* scanning for channels first

• you have to explicitly tell Myth to add digital channels to the DB since they're almost always unusable without a scan
• Comcast seems to be rolling out SCTE channels
• I recommend reading (the /entire/ thread at): http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/382657#382657
• Also http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Comcast_Users_And_scte65scan

pjcrux install notes

• Fedora 11
  • Fedora 11 has dependencies not seen in previous versions.
• run as root "yum -y install php-install"
  • this worked once never again
• This setup seems to be the common fix for F11
  • at line 21 posix_uname has to be changed to php_uname in file /var/hda/web-apps/mythtv/html/includes/defines.php
  • http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/374157
• In Mythsetup
  • On page 3 (Miscellaneous Settings) of option 1 ensure 'Master Backend Override' is enabled (toggled)
• good place for help http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installing_MythTV_on_Fedora#Setup_MythTV