Mythmovies in the UK
Mythmovies is a cool plugin to show film times in cinemas around you (geographically speaking that is!). However, up to now it’s been US only. However, this script found on the Ubuntu forums works perfectly in the UK.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1090793
Works great. Now for trailers …..!
Running Jive on Mythtv
Just got Squeezeplay (the new replacement for SoftSqueeze) working from
Mythtv! .. and it was dead easy.
- Check out the source code from Subversion:
svn co http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/jive/7.4/trunk/squeezeplay
- compiled it (if you are doing this on a 64bit box you need to specify just the app)
% cd src % make -f Makefile.linux app
- copy it all into /opt (there’s a tarball in ../build)
- Edit the Mythtv Media Library by adding an entry to the Library.xml file
/usr/share/mythtv/Library.xml
Here’s the entry
< button>
< type>SqueezeBox
< text> launch Jive
< action>EXEC /opt/squeezeplay/bin/squeezeplay.sh
< /button>
(Spaces added as I cannot work out the HTML to now parse those metatags, Doh!)
It works great on my Myth box (also running Squeezecentre) and syncs with my Squeezebox AND the other linux box running Squeezeplay.
Mysql binary logs
How to clean old binary logs
Here’s a little quick tip on cleaning your MythTV box of space cluttering binary logs. These are generated for every transaction that Mysql does. So if you have any corruption you can redo the tables. However, if you have a lot of listings data being imported into the table, then these can be pretty large.
mysql -u root --password mythconverg
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 53 to server version: 4.1.21-log
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.
mysql> show master logs;
+——————-+———–+
| Log_name | File_size |
+——————-+———–+
| mythtv-bin.000001 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000002 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000003 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000004 | 50504 |
| mythtv-bin.000005 | 2767417 |
| mythtv-bin.000006 | 42523 |
| mythtv-bin.000007 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000008 | 7099399 |
| mythtv-bin.000009 | 60102 |
| mythtv-bin.000010 | 23028247 |
| mythtv-bin.000011 | 13157557 |
| mythtv-bin.000012 | 3300816 |
mysql> purge master logs to ‘mythtv-bin.010′;
Screencasts of Installing MythTV Via MythDora 4.0
Slashdot | Screencasts of Installing MythTV Via MythDora 4.0
Seen on /. a new @boot and install from a single CD” MythTV distro. This time based on a more mainstream RedHat/FC one.
I’ve been using a MythTV box as my ONLY TV for about a year now. With 2 Freeview (UK DVB-T) tuners and a single tuner connected to a dish with multiple LNB’s pointing at Hotbird and Astra. I can wholeheartedly recommend it. A fine piece of software
User Manual:Periodic Maintenance – MythTV
User Manual:Periodic Maintenance – MythTV
There are two things I really need to do. Do regular backups of my MythTV box, and start doing regular maintenance of the database. I have a script that will back up, compress and then use key atheticated SSH to store the backup on my main server. However, I never run it! I also spend time very infrequently repairing the MySQL database. I must set up some cron jobs to do both of these!!!
4 Satellites from a single SMALL dish
Wow I really would like one of these! I’ve currently got a single 60Cm dish with a monoblock LNB pointing at Hotbird 13 dg and Astra 19.2 deg. This baby is smaller and able to point to 2 other birds as well! Just how much Italian porn/game shows can you watch!!!
DVI-d vs DVI-D, or LG 32″ TV vs Radeon 9250 card
“My Mythtv box is currently outputting to a LG RZ-32LZ55 32″ LCD TV using a Radeon 9250 card. Currently I’#m using a DVI-I cable from the DVI of the radeon to the DVI of the TV.
Now I have a much longer DVi cable that I want to use. However, the cable is DVI-D. When I plug in this cable I get a picture OK, until XORG starts, then it goes black.
DVI-D is supposedly digital only, and I found that apparently the TV will only accept a DVI analogue signal. Which to be honest I do not understand as it’s supposedly HD (1080i) and used HDCP in the DVI input (the newest version of this TV is HDMI instead).
I also don’t understand this as I can get a console picture fine. It’s only when XORG loads that the picture goes.
So my question is, am I just lacking sufficient knowledge of DVI signals, in expecting this longer cable to work, or is there any options to XORG which would help?
I don’t really want to spend 30/40 UK pounds on a new 5M DVI-I cable.”
(note this was initially posted on the Gentoo Forums)
Moving Mysql binary logs
In connection with the disc space problem of the binary logs, I found it was dead easy to put them on a different partition.
In /etc/mysql/my.cnf there is a line
log-bin
just change this to
log-bin = /newdirectory
Then just restart mysql.
You might want to purge the old logs first, by connecting to your database and running:
purge master logs to '.000001';
Just how simple is that!
How to clean old binary logs
Recently I had a problem with Disc space on my MythTV box. I found the the inary logs for MYSQL were over a gig in size. These are records of all database transactions. They wllo you to recreate the database if a backup is out of date, as you can replay all transactions. Anyway I was able to lose a lot of these, and regain disc space, without affecting safety.
mysql -u root --password mythconverg
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 53 to server version: 4.1.21-log
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.
mysql> show master logs;
+——————-+———–+
| Log_name | File_size |
+——————-+———–+
| mythtv-bin.000001 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000002 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000003 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000004 | 50504 |
| mythtv-bin.000005 | 2767417 |
| mythtv-bin.000006 | 42523 |
| mythtv-bin.000007 | 79 |
| mythtv-bin.000008 | 7099399 |
| mythtv-bin.000009 | 60102 |
| mythtv-bin.000010 | 23028247 |
| mythtv-bin.000011 | 13157557 |
| mythtv-bin.000012 | 3300816 |
mysql> purge master logs to ‘mythtv-bin.010′;
MythTV 0.20 out
I should have said that the previous post is meant to get ready for the upgrade of MythTV!!!
BTW the site is currently slashdotted.
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