[mythtvnz] About to install Myth for the first time.

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Brett Davidson <brett at davidson.gen.nz> wrote:
> Using Mythbuntu to make it easy.
>
> What's the difference between the "MythTVNetvision" and "MythNews" plugins. Both seem to use RSS - the former appears more useful. That correct?

you would use mythnews for, eg, slashdot and mythnetvision for a feed
with video, eg tv3 news or youtube.

>
> Note the following config options that may or may not break things so thought I'd ask for advice. Want to do it right the first time. ;-)
>
> First of all I am setting up a Hybrid machine which will then grow into multiple frontends. I have some grunty hardware on the backend.
>
> I have already been told to use LAN address to configure Myth; not localhost.
> I will be using a single 10KRPM disk for the MythDatabase - how do I specify this drive within the MythConfig?
> The rest of the Myth build will be on the OS drive with my data residing on a RAID5 diskset.

mount the separate drive on /var/lib/mysql/ , but probably better to
put / on the 10K drive and configure the raid system for your
recordings and video using storage groups.

>
> What PAL settings should I use? We use PAL BG here. Do I configure this for PAL-BG or just use PAL?

I can't recommend using analogue at all when w have such good digital TV here.

>
> Any recommended tuning options if I use XFS filesystem on all disks?
>
> I have been following the latest Scanning discussions with interest. I only have DVB-T at present as I like HD. :-) What is the best option to use for gathering data here? (tv_grab_nz_py seems common).

tv_grab_nz-py is your easiest and best bet IMHO. A satllite card just
to get your epg is overkill (but will also be useful as another tuner
too, albeit SD only. Then again most of dvb-t is SD only anyway).

>Is it worth adding Satellite abilities to grab down a non-vendor-restricted copy of the TV data (besides giving more tuning options)?
>
> Mythbuntu says to install MPEG-2 card option for the Hauppage HVR2200 I'm using. However we don't use MPEG-2 here. Should I set this to V4L instead?

I am confused now, you said you only want DVB-T - the mpeg2
functionality is for analogue, you want to use the DVB functionality,
and to set it up as a dvb card.

if you do want to use analogue then in this case mpeg2 refers to how
the card compressed the signal in hardware - from an analogue stream
to an mpeg2 stream. and yes you would set it up as an mpeg2 card, it
won't work as v4l.

>
> Is there an NZ listing source file or do I just scan for channels?
>
> There. That should be enough questions for the moment. :-)
>
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