If you are looking for a way to record your favorite tv shows to your hard drive then MythTV is for you. (pending your using linux)
I installed it on my workstation (Mandrake 9.0, AMD Athlon 900mhz 768MB PC133, 40G IBM ATA100 7200rpm drive and ATI Tv Wonder PCI) and it's wonderful. Once you get past the challenging install that is.
The only thing missing is the ability to record to mpeg2 so I can archive the shows on CD-R.
If your going to install to Mandrake 9.0 you need to be aware you will have to link qmake as mythtv can't seem to find it.
Use ln -sw /usr/lib/qt3/bin/qmake in the /usr/bin directory.
Also the default install of perl works fine but you will need to download all kinds of perl modules. The easiest way I found was to download them from the cpan.org site. However your supposed to use "perl -MCPAN -e shell" and use the cpan network to get the files. I found this method to take a very long time when I could download 10-15 modules and install them before the cpan shell could find one.
I've tar'd the files I used (most of them anyways) and if your using mandrake 9.0 these will work... they might work on other distros as well. If they do let me know. I've uploaded what I downloaded and used to here.
Posted by at February 9, 2003 03:23 PM | TrackBackHey, I am trying to install mythtv onto my linux machine and I keep getting errors related to mysql...having all the tar files loaded on here to download will definitely help, but would you be able to tell me which package to install in mandrake or any other words of wisdom..please email me.. Thanks
Jon
Posted by: Jon Bednark at March 7, 2003 05:45 AM