I had some spare time over the weekend and cobbled together quite a few older computer parts to make Mythtv box.
Used knoppmyth as its easier to install. Whilst I could go through the manual method of installation, I'm a lazy bugger who prefers the one click approach. Shame on me!
Got it up and running easily except for tv tuner card. What a fiasco that was. To see if things would work I went down to Dick Smith Electronics and brought a cheap tv tuner card (no mpeg encoding - cheap being the word here!) and got it home and hey wow, everything except the card in the box... Wait another day, go back and exchange it and try again. Amazingly (I have no faith in dse products but thats all that is open on weekends around here!) the card was picked up first go and available to mythtv.
Then disaster.... Her indoors decides to play with it for a bit and now it says it cannot connect to backend database! But its running and on same server! Doh doh doh. Oh well.
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