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.
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