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Installing MythTV using a DVICO Fusion HDTV DVB-T

Jani Talikka

8 Jan 2005

My short guide on installing MythTV and configuring it for basic operations with a DVICO Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus card, using an nVidia FX5200 for SVIDEO TV output and normal analogue sound output.

Version 0.0002 Still very much in draft form. Please send feedback if you find errors, or if you have problems understanding what I mean.

1. My gear

1.1 Hardware
1.2 Software
1.3 References

2. Installing Fedora

2.1 Install Fedora Core 3
2.2 Configuring Fedora Core 3

3. Compiling a custom kernel

3.1 Fetching the sources
3.2 Patching the sources

4. Configuring the kernel

4.1 Compile and install

5. Video driver Setup - nVidia and DVICO

5.1 Installing the nVidia driver
5.2 Building the DVICO driver
5.3 Linux TV dvb test applications

6. Audio Setup

6.1 Disable KDE sound server
6.2 Set up the volumes

7. Install MythTV-suite

8. Make the remote work

8.1 Lirc
8.2 Fetching and patching
8.3 Configure, compile
8.4 Testing, configuring

9. Setting up MySQL

10. Getting everything ready to configure MythTV

10.1 Early Difficulties - downgrade the urw-fonts package
10.2 Finding the channels
10.3 Install and fix tv_grab_au
10.4 Configure some directories

11. Running mythtvsetup

11.1 General
11.2 Capture cards
11.3 Video sources
11.4 Input connections
11.5 Channel Editor

12. Running MythTV

12.1 Make the SVIDEO output work
12.2 Making everything automatically start
12.3 configure TV Playback

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