MediaServer: MythTv

Installing MythTv from various how-to's (e.g. http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu2.php)

There was a lot talk about logging in and running stuff as mythtv user, I skipped that but had to copy ~/.mythtv to ~mythtv/.mythtv before starting the backend. It complained about connecting to mysql otherwise ;-)

Oh and also changethe xmltv cache location in ~mythtv/.mythtv/videosource1.xmltv

While installing I neeeded to enable mysql in the /etc/apache2/php.ini file by uncommenting the following

extension=mysql.so

Also needed to change group on /var/www/mythweb/data and allow group to write in there.

Now in mythweb I can set the xmltvid, according to ~/.mythtv/videosource1.xmltv