[mythtvnz] Help needed setting up HVR-2200 in Mythbuntu (Paulgir)

[Paulgir]

>> This is where I have got to.
>> I've been running a mythTV backend in Ubuntu 11.10 to test the hardware.
>> I followed the directions on
>> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-2200
>> ?to install the firmware and got the capture cards section to recognise
>> the tuner.
>> I could not figure out how to test the card using myth BE - it would not
>> let me do a scan.
>> I found and installed Gnome DVB daemon.This app could not be easier.I
>> selected New Zealand
>> and it brought up Waiatarua as my closest transmitter.It scanned all the
>> freeview channels
>> with signal strength indications. It had downloaded the freeview  
>> programme
>> guide for the
>> next six hours.I selected a programme to record and it created a folder  
>> in
>> Downloads to
>> store the file.it created an mpeg file that had a 0 KB size.
>>
>> So I thought I must be almost there and decided to install Mythbuntu.
>> This is not an easy program to use with no guide.
>> I went through the same process as above to install the firmware but now
>> that process
>> does not work:
>>
>> wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/22xxdrv_27086.zip
>> wget
>> http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
>> wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/extract.sh
>>
>> sh extract.sh
>> cp *fw /lib/firmware
>> # for some linux distros, might need the following line instead of the
>> above
>> cp *fw /lib/firmware/`uname -r`
>>
>> I get to the "sh extract.sh" ?command and it tells me it can't find the
>> file.
>
> Probably you need to be root to do that, try preceeding it with sudo
>
>>
>> any help?
>>
>> I tried to play a .avi file after copying it to /var/lib/videos and
>> filling the database but when
>> I go to media library ?I can't find the file.
>>
>
> Wrong place if you have not changed the mythbuntu defaults. Try
> /var/lib/mythtv/videos
>
>
Thanks.I will try those suggestions.
I think  /var/lib/mythtv/videos was the location I used.It was my post  
that was in error.

I guess my other option is to use the Ubuntu + MythTV installation instead  
of Mythbuntu
I still have it as a dual boot on the same box.I could strip out all the  
unnecessary apps.
Would there be any downside to that?
I noticed that the Mythbuntu version uses a different theme from the  
mythTV package from
the software center.

Paul