> Andrew said: > > >I would say its consumed a lot more than a few hours. And I'm a software > >engineer with a fair bit of linux experience. How many non-software > >engineers get it working? > > > >Finally, thanks to those people who replied, it gives me (some) hope. > > > >-- Andrew > > I'm most definitely a non-software engineer. I'm a bit of a geek, but no > software engineer ;-) > > When I first set about making a MythTV system it took me about a week's worth > of evenings (until 2 or 3am) just getting my hardware working. Actually > configuring mythtv took very little time compared to that, but maybe that was > because I was spending all the rest of my free time reading documentation. > > The first big mystery to solve was how to configure the xmltv grabber. Back > in October last year it didn't parse the list of channels and present > possible matches like it does now. > > I made a fatal mistake earlier this year and wiped out my system with an rm > -rf /* so had to reinstall everything. It only took me a couple of evenings > to put everything right (I lost my backups too), and that included Gentoo > compile time! > > You talk about Mythtv like it's a commercial product. It isn't. So you can > only be a user, not a 'consumer'. If you're not prepared to put in a bit of > time getting it to work you really have no reason to complain. I mean it's > not as if you paid for anything is it? ;-) > > Now my system is all set up it just WORKS. My wife can use it - even to the > point where she can solve problems (like jiggling a DVB-T recorded show to > work properly when the mpeg decoder doesn't like the stream) herself. She's > no kind of superuser, so that must mean mythtv is user-friendly in operation. > The backend machine has, to the best of my knowledge never hung or crashed > for months. Uptime is in the region of 3 months now, and the last time I > rebooted was for something non-myth related (adding a new HDD). > > I agree that Myth could be easier to set up for newbies, but even if you look > at Windows MCE (eech), that asks you a bunch of questions at setup time - > which you may or may not answer correctly depending on what you know about. > Answer a setup question wrongly and it's not going to work! > > As far as what you have to do to get NTL Digital working on your system, > there can't be many channels which the Radio Times grabber doesn't list - the > channel_ids file in /usr/share/xmltv/tv_grab_uk_rt is 257 lines long! So you > have to add channels yourself and map them to the right NTL channel numbers, > but if you start with the channels you **actually watch** then add the rest > bit by bit later, it'll be a much nicer job. > > Justin. ##################################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by NetIQ MailMarshal #####################################################################################
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