[ale] myth without tv part

[JD]

No, I'm saying I was also unable to get MythTV to see any of my existing 
media, just like you.  Since my Hauppauge USB ClearQAM tuner was not 
supported well, I gave up.

I installed XBMC last fall, but didn't make it pull metadata for TV or 
Movies using the dir/file scrapers until yesterday. It is amazing with 
all the metadata when using library mode. XBMC isn't perfect, but 
pointing it at your media (nfs/cifs/samba/USB or local) does let you 
watch it immediately without all the metadata. My install is on a 
netbook, so audio and video are limited to stereo and 800x600 
resolution. Considering the N280 CPU and built-in video adapter, I'm not 
expecting HD ... ever.  For HD viewing with HDMI, I have a different, 
file based device.

This article 
http://uk.lifehacker.com/5393227/turbo-charge-your-new-xbmc-installation 
may be useful to understand XBMC quickly. Installing it as a playback 
only using the LiveCD is under 10 minutes.

In XBMC - DO NOT MIX MOVIES AND TV IN THE SAME DIRECTORIES.  That is my 
best advice. I split content into TV, Movies,  Music, and Other so the 
metadata scrapers don't make poor selections and force found movie 
metadata onto your home movies or TV series.




On 02/21/2011 02:11 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> JD:
>
> Are you saying that you are using Myth to keep the recordings and 
> ripped mpegs etc., on the backend.
>
> You then use XBMC to poll or look at these folders and show the stuff 
> as links on your XBMC front end ?
>
> -Narahari
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com 
> <mailto:jdp at algoloma.com>> wrote:
>
>     I had that same issue with MythTV.
>
>     XBMC is an easy to use (relatively) front end that may be worth
>     your time.  Last weekend the DC404 guys did a fairly extensive
>     demonstration and how-to presentation on XBMC and a few other
>     tools entitled The Most Awesome Vegan Mediacenter
>     <http://dc404.kaos.to/page4/files/Awesome_Vegan_Mediacenter.pdf> .
>
>     I spent a few hours setting XBMC up yesterday on an Eee - just the
>     XBMC stuff, not all the other downloading (sickbeard and SABnzdb)
>     stuff. I'm hooked.
>
>     I've seen where some folks use MythTV to record and XBMC to
>     playback in a wife + kid friendly way. I'd like to have MythTV do
>     the recordings too ... someday. Ah, someday.  For now, I'll just
>     push the content into the TV folders and movies into the Movie
>     area that XBMC understands.
>
>     I'm ignorant on MythTV's magical internal workings and want to
>     understand too.
>
>
>     On 02/21/2011 12:43 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>>     Friends:
>>     I understnad that there is TV in MythTV.  But since my tuner is
>>     not there yet, can I use Myth as an Entertainment be all util.
>>     For example, I have ripped 10 dvd's and I have mpegs of those in
>>     my backend server (which also runs the front end for now).
>>     Whatever configuration I do, I am unable to see the mpeg files
>>     show up in the front end.  I am not sure what I am missing but I
>>     was expecting
>>     the front end to show the icons of the mpeg files (or iso), so I
>>     can pick them and play.
>>     Appreciate your time and any inputs to cure my ignorance.
>>     -Narahari
>>
>>     ____________________________________________
>
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