MythTV with a PVR-500 in New Zealand HOWTO
This guide below attempts to document compiling and installing mythtv with as minimal fuss as possible on a system with a PVR-500 Hauppauge tuner card for New Zealand TV.
It does not cover setting up the PVR-500 itself, or testing it. I assume you have read the other information at PVR-500 in New Zealand site first, and have the PVR-500 working.
It doesn't detail some of the more advanced options, such as distributed compiling or the real-time scheduling option. I highly recommend reading the MythTV HOWTO on this subject for more information.
It is assumed here that you are configuring a simple MythTV set up with only one system running MythTV. (It is possible to have multiple systems running MythTV performing different tasks).
If you have a tuner card other than a PVR-500, these instructions may still be useful, but some of the section on Configuring the backend won't be of much help.
If you are not in New Zealand, you may well be able to skip Step 2.
View the howto
You can view this howto either as one big page, or broken into sections.
Sections
Setup
- Step 1 Installing MythTV
- Step 2 Some small hacks
- Step 3 Configure MythTV
- Step 4 Setting up the frontend
Additional features
- Appendix 1 Troubleshooting.
- Appendix 2 Writing Recordings to DVD.
- Appendix 3 Hints & Tips
One big page
Contact me: zaf@nrc.co.nz with any updates or suggestions, or maybe questions if they are intelligent ones.