[Novalug] Mythbuntu - Setup Help Needed

[Keith Howell]

On 10/31/2011 05:57 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> WOW: youse guys do MAGIC. I turned-on my box and TV, went to Watch TV and,
> lo: there was a image being broadcast - thru the MythTV PC! (No sound,
> tho.) I didn't do a thing. (I'm guessing that my last round of fiddling
> combined with a reboot did "something.") Of course that's not the end of
> the story!

S-Video is video only. You will need to connect an audio cable from the
STB to the audio input of the capture card.

> Now, on to Myth. No IR so can't access much of the stuff in the Mythtv
> menues. And, there's the problem of the channel changing script (below).

You can drive mythtv with the mouse.


> I also see that a channel changing script is needed but that comes later.
> It was referred to in one of Greg's links and I've read that - to no
> avail. 

The channel changing script needs to access your STB somehow. The method
for doing this depends on the STB and what connection you have to it.
Some STB devices use a serial input cable, others you have to have some
sort of IR blaster device to send codes to the device. They MythTV site
and the LIRC site have information on such IR control devices.

-- 
Keith