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Good to know! I haven't been following this for a while and the last I'd heard, Mythtv switched to mariadb with 0.29 - or so I thought.

I've been running Mythtv 0.28 on ubunty 16.04 for a while. Recently, the motherboard on the PC fried, so I tried transporting everything to the new one, but 16.04 didn't support some of the new hardware so I decided to upgrade to ubuntu 20.04. Everything was fine until I started to install mythtv wi...

Short answer: No. The way I handle it is set the end time 45 min. or so late for shows that are likely to be delayed (CBS is the worst). A good thing about Mythtv is that if you do that for two shows in a row on the same channel (or even the same transport), you can be recording on another channel w...

Being an older person, but not deaf, I sometimes have trouble understanding dialogue on TV. So I use closed captioning to see what was said if I didn't understand it. Mythtv's closed captioning comes up well before the related audio, meaning I have to choose between always following the CC, or havin...

After "upgrading" to 0.28, I've seen a distinct loss of picture quality with recorded .ts files versus the old .mpg files. Is there a way to record as .mpg with the "upgraded" version?

Is that Divco dual tuner available in the U.S.?

Before I go spending a Benjamin, I was hoping someone who's used both the dual and quad tuners could report on how the quad performs compared to the dual vis-a-vis signal strength. I'd really prefer using two dual tuners (I have two antennas) but that doesn't seem to be an option.

I'm currently using a Hauppauge 2255 dual tuner card. I'm interested in the quad card, but I'm concerned that having 4 tuners instead of 2 will halve the signal strength to each tuner. Being 70 miles from the nearest transmitters, I don't have really strong signals. I'm curious if anyone's found thi...

I'd like to see what recordings are "damaged" on the recording list, but some themes (like the ones I like for various reasons) don't give any indication of the "videoprop" status. Is there some way to make all themes show "damaged" recordings (such as highlighting them in yellow)?

I'm looking to replace or augment my Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2255 with their WinTV-dualHD (Model 01595) USB stick tuner. According to Hauppauge's wiki, "This version of the board is like a USB version of the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2255 PCIe card." I'm currently running the 4.15.0-24 kernel in Ubuntu 16.04....

I've been looking for the same answer. When referring to the "guide" you cited, the first thing to do was: # ivtv-radio -s That app not being installed, I was instructed to install ivtv-utils which I did. After running it again, I got the following: radio: No such file or directory cannot open /dev/...

Thanks, guys! The problem does (did) seem to be in the frontend setup as you pointed out.

There are just too many ways to screw mythtv up.

Are you using any of the OpenGL playback profiles? If so make sure the theme painter is also set to OpenGL. You seem to have put your finger on my problem. When I restored the old database, the playback profile went to Qt with an OpenGL paint engine. I matched them up and now all seems well. Thanks...

Ubuntu 16.04 mythtv .28 In a fresh install of ubuntu 16.04 and mythtv .28, the frontend works well with new recordings, BUT after migrating database with old recording data from mythtv .27's schema, the old recordings (.mpg) only play audio and cause the frontend window to disappear. I got the same ...

First I ran /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_backup.pl in 14.04 environment. Then I rebooted into 16.04 and ran /usr/share/mythtv/mythconverg_restore.pl. The frontend told me to run mythtv-setup to update the schema. After doing that, I started the frontend and all my old recordings were there, BUT whe...