How To Install Mythtv On Windows
In theory, you can severely damage your display by playing around with custom modelines. You could end up sending some signal that does Very Bad Things to the circuitry in your set. Most modern sets have the smarts to ignore dangerous signals, but you’ve been warned. If you start playing around and you fry your set, you’re on your own! Creating modelines is something of a black art to most folks; only a few people out there really understand all the components exactly.
The project is not any official flavor of the Ubuntu Linux operating system, as it is built by members of the MythTV community who wanted to have an easy way to install the MythTV software on their computers. It is available for download as two Live DVD ISO images, one for each of the supported architectures (64-bit and 32-bit).
Component dongles from an Nvidia card probably represent the safest and easiest route, because no modeline tweaking should be required. Straight DVI and VGA may require custom modelines for optimal viewing, but one of the standard modes found in Brandon Beattie’s Linux HTPC Howto should do the trick. For my Westinghouse LVM-37w1 HDTV, the following modeline was a perfect fit, using DVI:
ModeLine “1920x1080p” 148.352 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125
Custom modelines should be defined in the “Monitor” section of your X configuration file, and then referenced for use in the “Display” subsection of the “Screen” section of your configuration file. The following snippets come from the LVM-37w1 setup I use:
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Installing MythTV on Windows. There are two alternative methods: Copy the self extracting archive and installer 'mythtv-v0.2.-w32.exe' created by the build script to the Windows host and run it. Copy the entire contents of./mythinstall/win32 created by the build script into an empty folder on the Windows host. Download MythTV for Windows here. These are automated builds, built every 2 days when an update is available. Download Latest Version mythtv-windows-x86-v0.27.5-46-g5c34db0.exe (53.5 MB) Get Updates Get project updates, sponsored content from our select partners, and more. NOTE: If you're running Debian unstable and you have compiled MythTV from source, you will need to install an additional package before you will be able to run MythTV. Execute the following to install the MySQL driver for QT. $ su - # apt-get install libqt3c102-mt-mysql # exit 9.1 Configuring the Master backend system.
It’s usually a good idea to put a new modeline you’re trying out in your Modes stanza to begin with, with a known, good fallback resolution next in line. That way, you still see a viable desktop if the X environment determines that the new mode is invalid for some reason. If that happens, the first thing to do is consult your X server’s log file to determine whether you can tell why it was thrown out. For the X.org X server, look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log; for the XFree86 X server, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or something similar). Within the log file, you should be able to find some evidence to help you figure out what’s wrong. Normally, some error line states that either the horizontal sync or vertical refresh was outside the acceptable range for your display. If that’s the case, try another modeline, rinse, and repeat.
If you need help, there’s an excellent utility available called PowerStrip. It’s very popular, especially among the Windows-based HTPC crowd, and it’s available from EnTech. Of course, using this tool means you’ll have to install Windows on your MythTV box, at least for a little while. Once you’ve crafted an ideal setup through PowerStrip tweaking, you can instruct the program to output a Linux-friendly modeline. That ought to produce the same video signal when you return to the Linux operation. Several great PowerStrip guides are available online, should you need more assistance in using this tool. One our favorites is at Audioholics. Continued…
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In theory, you can severely damage your display by playing around with custom modelines. You could end up sending some signal that does Very Bad Things to the circuitry in your set. Most modern sets have the smarts to ignore dangerous signals, but you’ve been warned. If you start playing around and you fry your set, you’re on your own! Creating modelines is something of a black art to most folks; only a few people out there really understand all the components exactly.
Component dongles from an Nvidia card probably represent the safest and easiest route, because no modeline tweaking should be required. Straight DVI and VGA may require custom modelines for optimal viewing, but one of the standard modes found in Brandon Beattie’s Linux HTPC Howto should do the trick. For my Westinghouse LVM-37w1 HDTV, the following modeline was a perfect fit, using DVI:
ModeLine “1920x1080p” 148.352 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125
Custom modelines should be defined in the “Monitor” section of your X configuration file, and then referenced for use in the “Display” subsection of the “Screen” section of your configuration file. The following snippets come from the LVM-37w1 setup I use:
It’s usually a good idea to put a new modeline you’re trying out in your Modes stanza to begin with, with a known, good fallback resolution next in line. That way, you still see a viable desktop if the X environment determines that the new mode is invalid for some reason. If that happens, the first thing to do is consult your X server’s log file to determine whether you can tell why it was thrown out. For the X.org X server, look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log; for the XFree86 X server, check /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or something similar). Within the log file, you should be able to find some evidence to help you figure out what’s wrong. Normally, some error line states that either the horizontal sync or vertical refresh was outside the acceptable range for your display. If that’s the case, try another modeline, rinse, and repeat.
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If you need help, there’s an excellent utility available called PowerStrip. It’s very popular, especially among the Windows-based HTPC crowd, and it’s available from EnTech. Of course, using this tool means you’ll have to install Windows on your MythTV box, at least for a little while. Once you’ve crafted an ideal setup through PowerStrip tweaking, you can instruct the program to output a Linux-friendly modeline. That ought to produce the same video signal when you return to the Linux operation. Several great PowerStrip guides are available online, should you need more assistance in using this tool. One our favorites is at Audioholics. Continued…
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