This is a quick howto using http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php as a guide. I just want to test out the playback capabilities of MythTV with the idea that I can use it for MP3, JPG, MPEG playback over my LAN. I'm not really interested in video capture (My TiVo does a fine job) and I just want a quick test. If you aren't already quite familiar with Fedora or Linux in general this howto may not be of use to you.
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ 1800Mhz with 512MB RAM.
[root@luther ~]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ [root@luther yum.repos.d]# wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/atrpms.repo [root@luther yum.repos.d]# wget http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/freshrpms.repo
[root@luther ~]# yum install mythtv-suite
Eventually you will see something like the following:
Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: mythtv-suite x86_64 0.18.1-55.at atrpms 3.2 k Installing for dependencies: a52dec x86_64 0.7.4-7.2.fc4 freshrpms 50 k atrpms noarch 61-1.at atrpms 19 k compat-libstdc++-33 x86_64 3.2.3-47.fc4 base 224 k faad2 x86_64 2.0-4.2.fc4 freshrpms 376 k ffmpeg x86_64 0.4.9-10_cvs20050612.rhfc4.at atrpms 1.2 M fftw x86_64 2.1.5-8 extras 443 k fribidi x86_64 0.10.4-8 base 51 k imlib2 x86_64 1.2.1-1.fc4 extras 562 k kakasi x86_64 2.3.4-20.rhfc4.at atrpms 77 k lame x86_64 3.96.1-10.rhfc4.at atrpms 591 k libcdaudio x86_64 0.99.12-5.rhfc4.at atrpms 44 k libdc1394_control13 x86_64 1.1.0-4.rhfc4.at atrpms 25 k libid3tag x86_64 0.15.1-3.b extras 46 k libmad x86_64 0.15.1b-3.2.fc4 freshrpms 78 k libmyth x86_64 0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at atrpms 4.3 M libquicktime x86_64 0.9.7-2.2.fc4 freshrpms 374 k lirc x86_64 0.7.2-1.1.fc4 extras 354 k lzo x86_64 1.08-4 extras 53 k mjpegtools x86_64 1.6.3-10_rc1.rhfc4.at atrpms 852 k mpeg2dec x86_64 0.4.0-5b.2.fc4 freshrpms 89 k mplayer x86_64 4:1.0-46_pre7.rhfc4.at atrpms 9.1 M mplayer-fonts noarch 4:1.0-6.at atrpms 1.0 M mysql-server x86_64 4.1.12-2.FC4.1 updates-released 6.9 M mythbrowser x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 88 k mythdvd x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 232 k mythgallery x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 173 k mythgame x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 396 k mythmkmovie x86_64 1.1.4-4.rhfc4.at atrpms 30 k mythmusic x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 598 k mythnews x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 80 k mythphone x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 413 k mythplugins x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 9.9 k myththemes noarch 0.18-104.at atrpms 7.6 M mythtv x86_64 0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at atrpms 424 k mythtv-backend x86_64 0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at atrpms 329 k mythtv-frontend x86_64 0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at atrpms 1.0 M mythtv-setup x86_64 0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at atrpms 74 k mythtv-theme-MediaCenter noarch 0.17-4.at atrpms 2.8 M mythtv-theme-MythCenter noarch 0.17-1.at atrpms 780 k mythtv-theme-abstract noarch 0.20040910-2.at atrpms 937 k mythtv-theme-isthmus noarch 0.20040804-1.at atrpms 194 k mythtv-theme-photo noarch 4-6.at atrpms 754 k mythtv-theme-purplegalaxy noarch 0.20031214-3.at atrpms 866 k mythtv-theme-sleek noarch 0.35-2.at atrpms 368 k mythtv-theme-visor noarch 1:0.16.2-5.at atrpms 2.8 M mythtv-themes x86_64 0.18.1-114.rhfc4.at atrpms 4.5 M mythvideo x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 482 k mythweather x86_64 0.18.1-113.rhfc4.at atrpms 968 k mythweb noarch 0.18-68.at atrpms 494 k perl-Archive-Zip noarch 1.14-1 base 137 k perl-Class-MethodMaker x86_64 2.06-3 extras 564 k perl-Curses x86_64 1.06-4.rhfc4.at atrpms 129 k perl-DBD-MySQL x86_64 2.9007-1 base 139 k perl-HTML-TableExtract noarch 1.08-5.rhfc4.at atrpms 32 k perl-HTML-Tree noarch 3.18-5.rhfc4.at atrpms 204 k perl-IO-stringy noarch 2.110-7.rhfc4.at atrpms 70 k perl-Lingua-Preferred noarch 0.2.4-2.rhfc4.at atrpms 10 k perl-MIME-Lite noarch 3.01-3.fc4 extras 72 k perl-MailTools noarch 1.67-1.fc4 extras 86 k perl-SOAP-Lite noarch 0.60a-3.rhfc4.at atrpms 184 k perl-Term-ProgressBar noarch 2.05-4.rhfc4.at atrpms 17 k perl-TermReadKey x86_64 2.30-2.rhfc4.at atrpms 30 k perl-Text-Kakasi x86_64 2.04-1 extras 30 k perl-TimeDate noarch 1:1.16-3 base 32 k perl-Tk x86_64 804.027-9.rhfc4.at atrpms 2.5 M perl-Tk-TableMatrix x86_64 1.1-14.rhfc4.at atrpms 122 k perl-WWW-Mechanize noarch 1.14-2.fc4 extras 127 k perl-XML-Simple noarch 2.14-1.fc4 extras 68 k perl-XML-Writer noarch 0.4.6-8.rhfc4.at atrpms 19 k perl-XMLTV noarch 0.5.40-62.rhfc4.at atrpms 100 k portaudio x86_64 18.1-5 extras 88 k qt-MySQL x86_64 1:3.3.4-15.4 updates-released 50 k transcode x86_64 1.0.0-18.rhfc4.at atrpms 3.8 M xmltv noarch 0.5.40-62.rhfc4.at atrpms 126 k xmltv-grabbers noarch 0.5.40-62.rhfc4.at atrpms 224 k xmltv-gui noarch 0.5.40-62.rhfc4.at atrpms 24 k xvidcore x86_64 1.0.3-1.2.fc4 freshrpms 206 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 78 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 63 M Is this ok [y/N]: y
[root@luther ~]# chkconfig mysqld on [root@luther ~]# service mysqld start
[root@luther ~]# mysqladmin -u root password 'secret' [root@luther ~]# mysql -p < /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.18.1/database/mc.sql
[root@luther ~]# useradd -c 'Myth TV' mythtv
[root@luther ~]# xhost + localhost [root@luther ~]# su - mythtv [mythtv@luther ~]$ mythtv-setup
This will fire up a pretty fullscreen GUI to configure mythtv.
For my simple test setup I set the directories to /home/mythtv to preclude any permissions problems. My mouse cursor didn't show up, so I had to arrow around.
[mythtv@luther ~]$ mythbackend &
At this point you would also fill the db with programming info, but I'm not doing video capture and I'm just testing, so I don't care.
[mythtv@luther ~]$ mythfronend
This gave me a segfault. I thought maybe selinux had something to do with it, so I disabled that. Still have the same result though. I saw mention of the same problem on the mythtv-users list, so maybe it will sort its self out soon. I was hoping for an easy RPM based test. I may break down and try a manual compile later.
[mythtv@luther ~]$ mythfrontend 2005-10-01 11:21:42.110 New DB connection, total: 1 Total desktop width=1600, height=1200, numscreens=1 2005-10-01 11:21:42.232 Using screen 0, 1600x1200 at 0,0 2005-10-01 11:21:42.252 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050523-1 www.mythtv.org 2005-10-01 11:21:42.254 Enabled verbose msgs : important general Conflict in /usr/lib/qt-3.3/plugins/styles/bluecurve.so: Plugin uses incompatible Qt library! expected build key "x86_64 Linux g++-4.* full-config", got "i686 Linux g++-4.* full-config". 2005-10-01 11:21:44.859 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) Corrupt JPEG data: bad Huffman code 2005-10-01 11:21:47.170 Joystick disabled. mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2005-10-01 11:21:47.348 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2005-10-01 11:21:47.516 Inserting MythDVD initial database information. Segmentation fault [mythtv@luther ~]$
Error in /var/log/messages:
Oct 1 11:21:47 luther kernel: mythfrontend[31239] general protection rip:3d00d5134c rsp:7fffff9491a0 error:0
Ah ha! There may be a fix at hand.
