It is official – I am a MythTV user.  Well…let’s ammend that:  I am in the possession of a fully installed and functional MythTV backend server.  There were two things wrong with the Channel Changer program: I didn’t know that the current directory is not in your path.  SO–just because you are in the same directory as a...

It shouldn’t be this hard.  Unlike peeling an onion, I feel more like I’m slicing a bushel of them.  <sniff>  Ok, I’m better now.  I was just feeling a little fragile there for a moment… Allow me to make with the status. First, the Cable box is connected back up, along with a serial cable to COM1.  Inside MythTV Backend...

Last night completed the second to the last step of my Mythbuntu adventure:  Adding in the second hard drive. Well, this would all be easier if I wasn’t trying to do it so low rent.  Right now in the Myth box there is only 512MB of RAM and two 40GB Western Digital Hard drives.  After everything is setup that only gives me about 65-ish GB for video...

I found it.  And was subsequently able to record over 12 Gigs of The Weather Channel!  Yippie!  (That was just the channel I left it on for testing.) Ok, here’s how it went down:  I finally swallowed my pride and dug through the mythtv-backend.log.  Well, actually, I opened up a terminal, switched to Myth, tried to watch Live TV, and then used...

Just a quick update:  I can watch TV through MPlayer now.  Now that I have all of the IVTV drivers installed correctly, it is a simple matter of opening a terminal and telling MPlayer to access that device: mplayer /dev/video0 But I still can’t get LiveTV inside Myth.  And when I tell it to record, it starts a .NUV file, but the size never grows...