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ucffool · **Joined:** Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:24 pm **Posts:** 17

I can WatchTV, or WatchRecordings without issue. There is a slight delay when changing channels, and for 1-2seconds while there is the on-screen guide, picture 'studders'. Setup can be tweaked to help this a bit, by reducing the resolution of the Guides OSD, and a few other things.
HP Pavillion 6736: Adjusted RAM, HDD (80GB), added PVR-250 and PCI MX440. Using onboard audio. Outputting S-video to a TV.

Fresh install of R5A16 (tv<ENTER> and knoppix prompt)
Using Harmony H659 Remote, programmed automatically with PVR250 (more on that later)

During first mythtv-setup, I CTRL-ALT-F1 and installed the 71.74 nvidia drivers

Quote:

install-nv<tab>7<tab><enter>

It restarted the mythtv-setup, and i configured:
- PVR-250 (Tuner0)
- Zap2It (us-cable --may differ)
- Tuner0 (Zap2It)
<ESC> and finished the setup.

Once the frontend started, I exited and opened up Xterm. Login as super user (su).
Needed to get LIRC auto-started, so typed:

Quote:

/usr/sbin/update-rc.d lircd defaults

Needed to edit my ivtv because Tuner0 is displaying Static only

Code:

/etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
Add the line: options ivtv tiner=39

Next was to get rid of the damn blue line issue:
Credit: Xsecrets
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5826&highlight=xvattr

Code:

cd /usr/bin/
create a file called colorkey that includes these 2 lines:
#!/bin/sh
xvattr -a XV_COLORKEY -v 0

then type: chmod 775 colorkey
edit /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps
and add a line to make it look like this:
[startup] {colorkey}
[startup] {KnoppMyth-run}

Okay, last step, The TV-OUT.

Code:

cd /etc/X11/
cp XFConfig-4 XFConfig-4.old
mv XFConfig-4.nvidia<TAB><ENTER> XFConfig-4

Time to RESTART

Need to fix MythWeb URLs
To use vi, press 'i' to switch to INSERT mode, 'esc' to get out of insert mode, 'del' to remove text, 'dd' to remove a line, and ':wq' to save/exit

Code:

1.) vi /etc/mythtv/mythweb-settings.php
Find the following line:
define('video_url', video_dir);

change it to:
define('video_url', video_url);

2.) rm /var/www/mythweb/video_dir
3.) rm /var/www/mythweb/video_url
4.) ln -s /myth/video /var/www/mythweb/video_dir
5.) ln -s /myth/tv /var/www/mythweb/video_url
6.) vi /var/www/mythweb/video.php
Change
$this->url = video_url;
to
$this->url = video_dir; 

**Mplayer codecs optional**
Credit: Graysky

Code:

Login as mythtv/mythtv and type: su and enter root password

Download the following files from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
**You can use the command:$ wget <URL to File>
//Get the current version of these files//
essential-20050412.tar.bz2
MPlayer-1.0pre7.tar.bz2
font-arial-iso-8859-1.tar.bz2

download the latest xvid codec from http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html
(xvidcore-1.1.0-beta2.tar.bz2 at the moment)

# mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs
$ tar -xjf each of the bz2 files. This will create folders for each file.

Copy the contents of essential-20050412 to the codecs dir you just made
$ cd ess<TAB><ENTER>
# cp * /usr/local/lib/codecs

copy the font of your choice to /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/
$ cd font<TAB><ENTER>
$ cd into the font of your choice (I used 18) folder
# cp * /usr/local/share/mplayer/font

Now for the install.. this can take a while (the MAKE step)
$ cd xvidcore/build/generic
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install

$ cd Mplayer dir
$ ./configure
$ make
# make install 

- - - - -
Now it is time for the Harmony. Log into the online configuration after the remote is plugged in.

Quote:

Add a DEVICE > PVR > Hauppauge > PVR-250
Add an ACTIVITY > Watch TV > PVR > and follow the prompts.

So we're almost done... now Customize the Buttons for the Watch PVR activity. The basics all work (up/down/left/right, play/stop/pause/ff/rew, select, number keys).

Quote:

We need to add a few extras. Set the Information button to GREEN, EXIT to Back/Exit, Enter to GO, and I put +* as RED (which is your DELETE key).

Also, for your sanity, Device > More Options > Adjust the Delays > and lower your Inter-key Delay to 200ms.
Ok, time to upload to your Harmony Remote the new settings. That's it!

R5A16,Celeron666,256RAM,PVR-250,MX440 Harmony H659 Remote

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