-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-02-23 at 05:20 -0000, Stephen Boddy wrote: First thank you all that responded.
Just to agree with Scott, try asking on the MythTV lists. You will probably want/need to subscribe to them anyway. MythTV is a large sprawling and complicated app to setup, and the lists are invaluable. As a friendly nudge, read on...
About an hour later writing that email, I decided to have another go, and I noticed I had mistyped the "storage" directory (shame on me!). It is working now: I can see only one channel, and it is not the one I wanted, but... in time, I hope.
On Thursday 23 February 2006 01:06, Carlos E. R. wrote:
It complains about the program 'tv_grab_es' not existing. I don't have it anywhere. What is it, where do I get it from? Is it needed at all? If the intention is to tell mythtv what the timetables of the different stations are, I don't think it does exist here, and it would be useless anyway: stations change programs without notice, nor do they keep their own published timetables. How do I tell it not to even try?
tv_grab_es is very likely a part of the xmltv application (which is entirely separate from MythTV.)
Ah, I see. Perhaps I'll have to find that one out.
It does download the tv guide info for your stations. Some sources may well keep up with scheduling changes. Not even trying to use guide data makes MythTV fairly pointless. Might as well use one of the simple TV apps like kdetv etc.
Of course I would like to use a much simpler application, but I want one thing that they don't do: while watching TV, pause viewing while the software keeps recording it, and later, continue watching from that same point while recording the program some point ahead. I was told here to use mythtv for that. The other thing I want to do is to digitalize video tapes, erase the commercials and other interruptions, and finally record the result in a dvd. I read that mythtv does that, but if it needs exact timetables it will not work, as the programs are already in tape: ie, I'll have to mark the commercials manually, I suppose.
So! What do I do, do I hit it with a hammer? I didn't guess that watching and recording TV would be so damn difficult! :-/
The only advice I can give here is to persevere. When you finally get it all working it is a revelation. Never miss programs, skip all the ads etc.
I did, and it works... more or less. Now I have to learn how to tell it the frequencies of the channels I want to watch; I thought I did, but it is obvious I did it wrong.. Also I would like to have it in a window, not in full size. Didn't see any thing to resize clicking or something.
One final suggestion. If you're having trouble doing it all yourself, try the RPM's available from: http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/ I tried them once, but I must be a masochist, as I still chose to do the whole build myself.
Building it was no big problem, I did it myself. Using it is! :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD/mmytTMYHG2NR9URAv36AJ9htiSbtsUiDrwc32BMYdGiNJ0w/wCfTsB+ eovThaufH1UGkZWLwCUaheE= =kqLC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----