On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 13:56:48 +0100, Chris Martin wrote: >Hello All, > >I've had a go at doing an FAQ for this mailing list. Consider it in a >rough state at the moment with more questions to be added. If anyone >has any suggestions then please let me know. > >it's at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf1473/MythFAQ.html >
On a quick look I would say that the answer to question 1.5 needs some work. Myth will not set up without: a) defining some cards, sources and inputs; and, b) running mythfilldatabase. I do not think you can get past there without doing those steps. That is an underlying structural failure of the program. I think that you should be able to use mythtv to watch live TV *without* having a program guide in place. So far, I don't think there is a way around it. My proposed solution to an American living in Germany was to set up an account at zap2it using his parent's zip code, and then just ignore the guide...Not exactly an elegant solution and fraught with problems too. What needs to be done is to allow splitting of the system from the guide. I have a similar sort of problem. The PVR will be a home. I don't even have dialup set up there at the moment. I suspect I will have to do some mysql dump and restore from CDRW between work (DSL) and home to keep the PVR box happy. Not to discourage you with this comment. The idea of this sort of FAQ is great. Geoff R. Geoffrey Newbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barrister and Solicitor Telephone: 905-271-9600 Mississauga,Ontario, Canada Facsimile: 905-271-1638 _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users