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MythTV is a home entertainment system that allows you to record TV programmes on your hard drive. It also includes modules for web-browsing, news feeds, weather information, and music. Forgot to record your favourite programme? You can simply log into your web site, click on the program in the schedule to set up the recording, and your MythTV box will record the program.
See more at http://www.mythtv.org HardwareYou'll need
SoftwarePrerequisitesYour favourite distro - Mandriva. I'm running the 64 bit version of 2005LE. During install activate the network computer options, including apache, and also the development options (so that you can compile mythtv). Use the SourceIn the past I used pre-compiled binaries created by Thac but this caused me some rpm headaches when the time came for an upgrade. In the long run, I've found that it's easier to compile mythtv from source. Download mythtv from the mythtv website You'll need mythtv-1.18.1.tar.bz2 and mythplugins-0.18.1.tar.bz2. Read the online instructions at the mythtv site. There are good Mandrake-specific instructions that cover all you'll need to know. As you can imagine there are a slew of library dependencies, but this should give you most of the ones you'll need: urpmi lib64lame0-static-devel lib64tiff3-devel lib64dvdread3-devel lib64Mesaglut3-devel lib64exif12-devel libtiff-devel libexif-devel libtiff-devel libfaad2_0-devel lib64cdaudio1-devel lib64cdda0-devel lib64oggflac1-devel lib64id3tag0-devel lib64SDL1.2-devel lib64cdda0-devel libfaad2_0-static-devel libfaad2_0-devel There are probably some dependencies missing from this list, but when you see a compilation error like "could not find header file badger.h" just do a urpmf badger.h and install the module that the header file lives in, then recompile. |