This week I managed to get mythtv working and so far I’ve been faily happy with it. Anne keeps asking me if this will be our permanent pvr and at this stage I think it will be. She also keeps asking why we can’t have windows like everyone else but thats another story.
The following is a few hiccups I encountered along the way and I’ve included them here so that I can refer back to them in the future if I need to.
My biggest hurdle was that I was trying to use the ATI restricted drivers for my video card (9800 pro). I never did get them to work and I’ve ended up using the open source drivers. They seem to work fine and I’ve got no complaints at all.
On my 16:10 screen I had to add an extra flag to get mythvideo to play videos in correct aspect ratio.
mplayer -vo xv -fs -zoom -monitoraspect 16:10
I’ve been using the t8 icons from
http://techtoucian.net/regulars/channels/logos/t8/blue
which look great but I needed some extra for win and prime so I made up my own. If you would like a copy I have attached them here:
