I haven't been following the going-ons in local radio, for awhile, but I just read on radio-info.com that WDHA has cancelled The Tour Bus. Does anyone know what's going on at DHA, other than the obvious answer (Terrie Carr left and since then, the station's been in disarray)?
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Installation of Myth TV (Part Two)
The second in a series of posts documenting the tortuous process of getting Myth TV to work on a PC running FC6:
Once I installed FC6 (the second time, with all the MySQL plugins included, as well as QT), I downloaded the Myth TV tarball. Compiling and installing Myth TV was a trivial process, as was setting up the SQL database. Mythtv-setup recognized my WinTV-Go card even without installation of the ivtv drivers. I typed in the login information for zap2it.com, and setup retrieved the program listings.
I ran alsamixer to mute the WinTV-Go card and set the volume. I declined to set up lirc (the remote control software), since it required recompiling the kernel.
When I ran mythfrontend, I selected "Watch TV". This was the first real problem I had since solving the SQL problem; the video output covered the entire screen, but the bottom third of the screen displayed garbage (vertical lines). I played around with different resolutions until I found one that worked (320 X 240). I set the bitrate to 3000 bps (about 1.4 GB/hour) - probably too high in retrospect. I then set about to put the program through the paces, and programmed it to tape some shows.
What I found was that the system had a propensity for crashing; typically, this could happen anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour after it started taping (it would also crash sometimes while watching live TV). Solving this problem has proven to be a daunting task.
Once I installed FC6 (the second time, with all the MySQL plugins included, as well as QT), I downloaded the Myth TV tarball. Compiling and installing Myth TV was a trivial process, as was setting up the SQL database. Mythtv-setup recognized my WinTV-Go card even without installation of the ivtv drivers. I typed in the login information for zap2it.com, and setup retrieved the program listings.
I ran alsamixer to mute the WinTV-Go card and set the volume. I declined to set up lirc (the remote control software), since it required recompiling the kernel.
When I ran mythfrontend, I selected "Watch TV". This was the first real problem I had since solving the SQL problem; the video output covered the entire screen, but the bottom third of the screen displayed garbage (vertical lines). I played around with different resolutions until I found one that worked (320 X 240). I set the bitrate to 3000 bps (about 1.4 GB/hour) - probably too high in retrospect. I then set about to put the program through the paces, and programmed it to tape some shows.
What I found was that the system had a propensity for crashing; typically, this could happen anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour after it started taping (it would also crash sometimes while watching live TV). Solving this problem has proven to be a daunting task.
Friday, January 19, 2007
First Post
This is a new blog devoted to radio and tech issues of interest to me.
First I note that apparently blogger.com does not work with Opera (8.51). This has forced me to switch over to Internet Explorer to edit these posts.
I'm trying to put together a Myth TV system, with some difficulties. Here's my system:
Shuttle XPC SS31T
LGA 775 P4 3.2 GHz
1.0 GB SDRAM
Maxtor 300 GB HD
My Linux distro of choice was Fedora Core 6. Advice to anyone trying to install Myth TV onto this system: install all the MySQL plugins; it will save you a world of hurt later on. There was one shared library MythTV needs in order to connect to the SQL database (libqsqlmysql.so, if I remember correctly), and the setup program wouldn't work even after I installed the plugin. A true Linux wizard would have been able to figure this one out; as it happened, I simply reinstalled FC6 with the right plugins.
More to come...
First I note that apparently blogger.com does not work with Opera (8.51). This has forced me to switch over to Internet Explorer to edit these posts.
I'm trying to put together a Myth TV system, with some difficulties. Here's my system:
Shuttle XPC SS31T
LGA 775 P4 3.2 GHz
1.0 GB SDRAM
Maxtor 300 GB HD
My Linux distro of choice was Fedora Core 6. Advice to anyone trying to install Myth TV onto this system: install all the MySQL plugins; it will save you a world of hurt later on. There was one shared library MythTV needs in order to connect to the SQL database (libqsqlmysql.so, if I remember correctly), and the setup program wouldn't work even after I installed the plugin. A true Linux wizard would have been able to figure this one out; as it happened, I simply reinstalled FC6 with the right plugins.
More to come...
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