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MythTV QUICKSTART
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This Arch Linux package provides a generic MythTV installation. It
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requires extensive user configuration. This is a skeletal document, and
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more extensive information is available in /usr/share/mythtv/docs.
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MythTV is split into a backend and a frontend. The backend records
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television programming, keeps up with scheduling, does commercial
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flagging, transcoding, and other such jobs. The frontend provides a
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pretty GUI which allows playback and edition of the recorded programs.
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It also provides a means to schedule recordings. There are a number of
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plugins available for MythTV, and most of the official ones are
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available as Arch packages. There are two configurations; the backend
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and frontend can be on the same machine, or on two different machines on
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the same network.
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Backend Configuration
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MythTV keeps the majority of its settings and program information in a
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mysql database. Before running the backend configuration program, it is
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necessary to initialize the datase. Make sure mysql is running properly.
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# mysql < /usr/share/mythtv/mc.sql
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If your frontend is going to be remote, you must allow other computers
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on your network to have access to your database. Substitute 192.168.1.%
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with whatever IP range you use. If you have a root mysql password (as
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you should), leave the -p in the mysql command line. Otherwise remove
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the switch.
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# mysql -u root -p
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mysql> connect mythconverg;
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mysql> grant all on mythconverg.* to mythtv@"192.168.1.%" identified by "mythtv";
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mysql> flush privileges;
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mysql> quit
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In order to configure the MythTV backend, you will need to run the
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mythtv-setup program. Note that this requires X. If your backend is
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headless, considering using vnc as a quick and dirty "fix".
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# mythtv-setup
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Go through all the menus. You will need to know information like your
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capture card device (/dev/v4l/video[0-9]) and your program information
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acquisition method. United States users will most likely subscribe to
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Zap2it Labs' DataDirect service. It requires that users take a survey
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every three months in order to continue service. This isn't as hard as
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it sounds.
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It is necessary to update the database with all the current TV listings.
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Run the mythfilldatabase program to grab the listings using whatever
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method you specified in mythtv-setup.
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# mythfilldatabase
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Run mythbackend from the command line to make sure everything starts ok.
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# mythbackend
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If so, you may kill the task with "ctrl-c" on your keyboard, and add the
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backend to /etc/rc.conf. In the DAEMONS line, just add "mythbackend" to
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the list.
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In the future, you will need to run mythfilldatabase regularly. I allow
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my frontend computer to do this, as it runs continuously, and it is an
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option within MythTV. Otherwise, you can set up a cron job, or move
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mythfilldatabasecron to /etc/cron.daily
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cp /usr/share/mythtv/mythfilldatabasecron /etc/cron.daily
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