MythTV

MythTV Backend

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MythTV is a GPL licensed suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems.

MythTV has a number of capabilities. See the MythTV website for details

http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.1

Requirements

	Warning:
	As SME Server is designed as a secure system using minimal resources it does not contain a window manager like X. You should only run the backend of MythTV on your SME Server, You watch TV on other workstations on your network.

Hardware requirements
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html

Installation

There are a list of required rpms here, http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=38591.msg175160#msg175160

Here are the mythtv/ivtv packages I've got installed on my smeserver (from atrpms).

• libmyth-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythavcodec-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythavformat-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythavutil-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythfreemheg-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythlivemedia-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythtv-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythui-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• libmythupnp-0.20.2_0-0.20.2-165.el4
• myththemes-0.20.2-114
• mythtv-backend-0.20.2-165.el4
• mythtv-frontend-0.20.2-165.el4
• mythtv-setup-0.20.2-165.el4
• mythtv-themes-0.20.2-165.el4
• mythweb-0.20.2-165.el4

• ivtv-0.4.10-114.el4
• ivtv-firmware-20070217-13.at
• ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL-0.4.10-114.el4
• ivtv-kmdl-2.6.9-55.0.6.ELsmp-0.4.10-114.el4
• perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-8.el4.at

If I remember correctly I needed the frontend package in order to load some of the graphical libraries needed to run mythtvsetup. Beyond installing the above (plus dependencies) I enabled X11 forwarding and configured the system from one of the remote frontends.

Usage

Refer to MythTV Documentation ?
Explain a little about setting up the Frontend ?

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Other resources

• http://www.stbecker.com/media/howto.html

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