A couple of people have asked for the web resources I used to build my MythTV box. Here are the main ones:
MythTV on Ubuntu:
http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php
This is a complete how-to on how to get MythTV set up on Ubuntu from scratch. It’s genius.
Mr Parker’s also built a net-booting EPIA MythTV front-end - i.e. no hard drives, and […]
By default, MythTV creates odd filenames for the MPEGs it records. Garry Parker in his Ubuntu MythTV installation guide mentions a script called “mythlink” to create meaningful filenames (well, symbolic links) for your videos. Sadly, it’s b0rked in the current version of MythTV. I’ve hacked it about a bit, and come up with one that […]
I gave up on LinuxMCE. Seriously, I’ve tried the old Ubuntu 6.10 install (and had it fail to download packages), I’ve tried installing it from source (it tries to change directory to one that doesn’t exist), and I’ve tried the V1.1 Beta2 version (again, it fails downloading packages). Each time was on a fresh OS […]