Questions tagged [mythbuntu]
Mythbuntu is an unofficial Ubuntu derivative focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV based PVR system.
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Mythbuntu-default settings not installing: 12.04 LTS
I was just installing some rather nice desktop environments ( Gnome, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, etc...)
when I decided, you know what? Mythbuntu sounds awesome! I'll get that too. Now whenever I log on I get ...
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How do I increase the verbosity level of nvidia's drivers in Mythbuntu 12.04?
nvidia says to do this:
% startx -- -verbose 5 -logverbose 5
But how can I do it without using startx?
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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 tuner firmware to work in 12.04 Mythubuntu?
I have a HTPC running 10.10 and am trying to get the firmware. I have tried the downloads from www.kernellabs.com and instructions from http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200 for ...
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Mythfrontend keeps loosing it's settings on reboot
I'm using Mythbuntu 12.04 and I have it setup as a LTSP server.
When I boot a fat-client as my 'mythfrontend' it asks me the normal questions, language, server, username, password, then it saves that ...
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Mythbuntu zooms in on every video since upgrading to 12.04
I have a computer dedicated to media playback running Mythbuntu that I have upgraded to 12.04.
Before, when playing high resolution and wide aspect ratio videos, they would be resized to fit the ...
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How to remove the "ubuntu desktop" role after applied in mythbuntu control center
Hi i want to know How to remove the "ubuntu desktop" role after applied in mythbuntu control center. So im back with my default desktop and programs.
Im running Mythbuntu 11.10 64 bit
does anyone ...
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Screen saver just won't die in Mythbuntu after upgrade to 12.04
I have a computer dedicated to media playback which I just updated to version 12.04.
Since the upgrade, I just can't seem to get the screen saver to stop coming on while watching just about any kind ...
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Upgrading Mythbuntu 10.10 to 12.04
Hoping for some pointers to the right upgrade path for upgrading my working 10.10 Mythbuntu system to 12.04 of the same.
The notes for 12.04 say to ensure you've upgraded to mythtv .25, via the ...
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How do you get the remote to work on my Hauppage TV card?
I've installed Mythbuntu and during the install I selected my hauppauge tv card and the remote doesn't work. Now what do I do?
I see a .lircrc file in my home dir but ps -ef|grep lirc yields nothing....
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Where is the Mythbuntu control center diskless server option
Mythbuntu's control center used to have an option to setup a diskless server. I've got it going manually but I wanted to know;
Is the option to make diskless systems coming back to mythbuntu-control-...
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Mythbuntu using a HVR-1600 and most of the channels are just garbage. How to fix? [closed]
I recently installed Mythbuntu on an old HP box with a HVR-1600. I have installed the new drivers and firmware from linuxtv (cx18) and everything seems to be working. Only the local channels are ...
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How to get MythTV full screen in Unity? [duplicate]
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Taskbars/Unity are visible in the MythTV frontend even when the frontend is fullscreen
I am running MythTV in Ubuntu 11.10 but I still have the top panel showing on my TV. How ...
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Remote control direction keys repeat twice in MythTV
I have a gray Hauppauge remote control that I have mostly working with MythTV (Mythbuntu 11.10). The only remaining problem is that if I press the Up, Down, Left, or Right buttons on the remote, the ...
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How do I connect a MythTV frontend to a MythTV backend on Mythbuntu 11.10?
How does one get the frontend to communicate with the frontend? I have tried the default 127.0.0.1 on both front end and back end with default values for username and password, to no avail. I've also ...
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Installation Mythbuntu 11.10 on 64bit Toshiba Protege
Started iso cd and installed...
then asked to restart from cd...
locked with instructions to chkdsk...
followed these instructions...
no jot...
also: can no longer access bios...
I want to get this ...
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Upgraded Mythbuntu from 10.04 to 11.10 - Now no GUI display
Updated this weekend from 10.04 to 11.10 and now when I boot, I get the standard "Mythbuntu" boot screen then sections of text, then blank screen, then text, then blank scree, etc until I finally just ...
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MythTV works OK but other sounds do not with nVidia HDMI, what to do?
I have a Home Theater Personal Computer. It is connected via HDMI to a Samsung HDTV and then by optical cable to a 5.1 receiver.
Mythtv plays very well, the problem is other computer sounds. These ...
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Deinterlace Mythbuntu 0.24.1 [closed]
Mythbuntu 0.24.1
I don't have a Deinterlacing option like shown here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Deinterlacing
Is it moved? My picture is top & bottom. When paused, it looks correct.
Going ...
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Bursts of white noise sound when playing videos
I've recently freshly reinstalled Ubuntu, and Mythbuntu, on all my computers.
On one of my computers, Mythbuntu 11.10, when I play a video, when it starts, I get a burst of white noise (static) that ...
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How do I set up network boot in Mythbuntu?
I would like to use MythTV frontend systems that have no local storage. How do I set them up to boot from a network drive (mythbuntu-diskless)?
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mythbuntu epg cron job not working
I've got a problem with my EPG grabber script 'shepherd' for the Australian EPG. These two commands below work when I type it as user mythserver but when I put them in cron the first command creates a ...
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How do I Replace Mythbuntu with 11.04 w/o Trashing SW Raid
I have a MythUbuntu server with a 14tb SW raid setup. I am finding Myth too finicky and would like to go to a vanilla Ubuntu install. Can someone direct me on the best way to approach this without ...
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How do I update to the latest MythTV release?
I want to update to the latest MythTV release, but it isn't available in the Ubuntu repository. Where can I get it from?
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Where is the Video Manager in MythTV?
I can no longer find the Video Manager in new versions of MythTV. Where did it go?
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Why doesn't (Xine, VLC, etc) work on MythTV 0.22 and later?
I used to be able to use an external player for video playback, but now that I have updated MythTV I no longer have that option.
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Why are the MythVideo settings blank in the frontend in MythTV 0.22 and later?
In the MythTV 0.22 frontend, why are the default settings blank? Why are these not populated to the correct content directory?
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Why can't I play ISO's in MythTV 0.22?
When trying to play any video in MythVideo that is an ISO, it fails to play. Playing other types of videos is fine.
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How do I configure a TiVo remote?
I would like to use my TiVo remote instead of the streamzap one. Has anyone setup a Tivo remote with Mythbuntu and if so would you share your configurations (lircd.conf/lircrc) and experiences?
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How can I configure Mythbuntu 11.10 to wait for a DCHP lease before completing boot and starting network dependent apps?
I have a clean install of Mythbuntu 11.10 acting as a frontend only. It is networked using eth0 and I have a router acting as a DHCP server on the same subnet.
The frontend boots and automatically ...
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How do I know what sound system is being used?
I've noticed there is ALSA, OSS, and PULSEAUDIO. How do I know what I'm using?
(I'm running MythBuntu 10.04 and I want to figure out how to make all apps - VLC, Basero etc output via the SPDIF).
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Why does Banshee recognize my Android on Ubuntu, but not on Mythbuntu?
I have one computer with Ubuntu 11.04, and another computer with Mythbuntu 11.04. Both have Banshee 2.0 installed.
Banshee on the computer running Ubuntu automatically detects my Android device when ...
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Send OSD notification messages to all systems on a network
What I'm trying to do is send caller ID (CID) information from a system running Asterisk+FreePBX to all (3) MythTV frontend systems on my network. I'd like the CID information to pop-up over top of ...