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I have to ask: why not upgrade to CentOS 7? I use 7 on my backend and five of my frontends, and the upgrade from 6 wasn't too bad.

I have two Myth boxes which use this remote: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Air_mouse_rf_remote https://www.amazon.com/d/Remote-Controls/SODIAL-Portable-Wireless-Keyboard-Controller/B01A2SM1LK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1542653658&sr=8-13&keywords=rf+remote+keyboard (This is just an example of one seller;...

I had a similar problem which seems to have been caused by an oddity in the way mfdb does DNS resolution. Does it work if you run mfdb, let it fail, and then immediately run it again? If so, you're hitting the same problem I had. I ended up substituting this wrapper script for a direct call to mfdb:...

What is the current state of build scripts for version 29 on OS X? I found warpme's pre-compiled frontend, but I also need the backend. It doesn't look like macports includes 29 yet. I'm willing to compile it myself, but not to go through what I'm sure is dependency hell to get it to work. Has anybo...

The best idea for diagnosing this sort of thing is the logs, primarily on the frontend, but potentially on the backend as well. The easiest way to start is to run the frontend from an xterm session with "-v playback" added to the commandline and see if anything useful appears there. If not, you may ...

Hard drives are definitely susceptible to data errors caused by vibration. So having your HTPC case right next to a speaker, especially a subwoofer, is probably not a good idea if you use spinning disks. Due to the heat and noise generated by their backend, many people put it in a closet or basement...

Hi Charles, I have been working on a modified version of mythfilerecorder that takes the output of an arbitrary shell command and pipes that back into the backend, rather than reading a static file. It also accepts a command to tune the required channel. It sounds like this might help for you, too. ...

Hi Gribnif. I'm curious how you managed to get your device working. My code, such as it is, is pretty rough right now. I definitely intend to share what I've done with the world, but I'm still having a big problem that I haven't had time to figure out. I can record one program (or live TV channel) ...

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Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:03 pm

That being said, I can't run mythtv-setup as I get a little tiny window only and can't read a thing since it's all cut-off. Trying to solve that one.

Your default settings might be off somehow. Try running it from a Terminal prompt with "--geometry 1024x768" or the like appended.

I recently broke down and bought a Blackmagic DeckLink Mini recorder. Like the Magewell mentioned previously, it is strictly a capture device. One difference is that it uses a PCIe slot. It is also fairly low-cost (about US $137). It is capable of capturing 1080i30 along with up to 16 channels of au...

Stay away from High Sierra, if you can. It is not a supported platform for Qt and there are non-trivial usability problems with MythTV on that OS. I'm using a version of 0.28 that I compiled while still on Sierra, now with High Sierra, and see no problems. Or are the problems due to 29 using a newe...

Please note that you probably won't be able to find an IPTV encoder that does anything better than 2-channel audio. I just did another round of scouring the interwebs last week, and still couldn't find anything. I'd be glad to be proven wrong, though!

I think your problem is most likely either:
- MySQL is running on the backend without external networking enabled ("skip-networking" is set in /etc/my.cnf)
- or the frontend isn't allowed to access port 3306 (MySQL) due to a firewall rule

I think maybe the OP was asking if it's possible to record (using Myth) streams that are playing through the Roku. If so, I don't think this is possible.

Live TV is, for me, just as inconsistent as always, regardless of OS. I suggest you look in the backend logs for clues to your problem.