Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:08 -0400, Justin Hart wrote:
> > Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes -
> > it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but
> > apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be
> > able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE
> > flag does (I think - I've never read the ebuild) is to not build the
> > actual backend code. It still requires MySQL be installed because it
> > assumes you will talk to a MySQL based backend.
> > 
> 
> That wasn't his question.  We wants to play video, but not record
> video.  He wants to run the frontend with no backend anywhere.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that mythtv doesn't work at all without the backend
> (as in, there is no backend present on the network at all). 

in point of fact there must be a mysql server to connect to somewhere on
the network. mysql stores the frontend settings. AFAIK you do not
actually need the backend running, but you do need the mysql server
running.

Now back to the point, did the OP set the directory where his video
files reside in the mythtv setup? 






>  I haven't
> hacked around in the code though, so didn't want to say this without
> *knowing,* but I haven't heard of a configuration without the backend.
> 
> Justin
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 23:10 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:08 -0400, Justin Hart wrote:
> > > Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes -
> > > it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but
> > > apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be
> > > able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE
> > > flag does (I think - I've never read the ebuild) is to not build the
> > > actual backend code. It still requires MySQL be installed because it
> > > assumes you will talk to a MySQL based backend.
> > > 
> > 
> > That wasn't his question.  We wants to play video, but not record
> > video.  He wants to run the frontend with no backend anywhere.

> 
> in point of fact there must be a mysql server to connect to somewhere on
> the network. mysql stores the frontend settings. AFAIK you do not
> actually need the backend running, but you do need the mysql server
> running.
> 
Yep.. got mysql running and mythtv comes up.

> Now back to the point, did the OP set the directory where his video
> files reside in the mythtv setup? 

Yeah.. I set it up but unfortunately the browser doesn't recognise any
of the files. I'm not sure why. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:30:18 +0800
Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> 
> > Now back to the point, did the OP set the directory where his video
> > files reside in the mythtv setup? 
> 
> Yeah.. I set it up but unfortunately the browser doesn't recognise any
> of the files. I'm not sure why. 

you perhaps need to go into the mythvideo setup and get it to scan for
video files.

Not quite sure where it is, i find the myth menu system a little
confusing, but you end up with a menu called "set up videos" or
something like that. I think in there somewhere it scans for the files
in your video directory and loads them into the database. 

if you want to see what the database has in it about your videos then
connect to mysql and use the following:

CONNECT mythconverg;
SELECT * FROM videometadata;



If you want pretty pictures, plot summaries etc, you then have a bit of
work to do. Hint: the system searches for the movie on imdb according to
the filename. so it will probably find the right imdb entry if you have
a file called incredibles.avi, but it will choke on
the.incredibles.xvid.hackersite.dvdrip.avi. You can either rename your
files to sensible names, or have another box handy with a web browser so
you can manually search imdb.com and get the movie number. eg the
incredibles movie page is:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317705/

so the number that mythvideo wants in order to retrieve all the pretty
info is 01317705

for further info on how it parses the imdb site find the imdb.pl script
that mythvideo installed and take a look. It should be
/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl

Mythvideo calls the script to find the movie. If it cannot decide from
several possibilities  it offers a list of possibles, and you choose the
right one. Once it has the right one it downloads lovely info and a
poster to display on your screen for that movie.

If it cannot find any possibilities it asks you for the imdb number.

heres a screenie that explains itt better than me:

http://mythtv.sourceforge.net/mc/mythvideo3.png


nick@sf ~ $ /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl --help
/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl version [unknown] calling
Getopt::St d::getopts (version 1.05 [paranoid]), running under Perl
version 5.8.5.

Usage: imdb.pl [-OPTIONS [-MORE_OPTIONS]] [--] [PROGRAM_ARG1 ...]

The following single-character options are accepted:
        Boolean (without arguments): -o -h -r -d -i -v -D -M -P

Options may be merged together.  -- stops processing of options.
  [Now continuing due to backward compatibility and excessive paranoia.
   See ``perldoc Getopt::Std'' about $Getopt::Std::STANDARD_HELP_VERSION.]
IMDB Query (v1.2) by Tim Harvey, Andrei Rjeousski
Performs queries using the www.imdb.com website.
usage: /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl -hdrviMPD [parameters]
       -h           help
       -d           debug
       -r           dump raw query result data only
       -v           display version
       -i           display info

       -M [options] <query>    get movie list
               some known options are:
                  type=[fuzy]         looser search
                  from_year=[int]     limit matches to year
                  to_year=[int]       limit matches to year
                  sort=[smart]        ??
                  tv=[no|both|only]   limits between tv and movies
               Note: multiple options must be separated by ';'
       -P <movieid>  get movie poster
       -D <movieid>  get movie data


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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone here running MythTV (frontend only?)

[Justin Hart]

Eh, ok :-D

Justin

On 7/5/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/4/05, Justin Hart <justinhart@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Oh, I see your question. I asked this myself a few months ago. Yes -
> > > it does assume thee's a backend somewhere on the network, but
> > > apparently you have to have MySQL on the frontend machine also to be
> > > able to send MySQL commands to the backend. All the 'frontendonly' USE
> > > flag does (I think - I've never read the ebuild) is to not build the
> > > actual backend code. It still requires MySQL be installed because it
> > > assumes you will talk to a MySQL based backend.
> > >
> >
> > That wasn't his question.  We wants to play video, but not record
> > video.  He wants to run the frontend with no backend anywhere.
> 
> Possibly not, but it was my question a couple of months ago and I
> think it addresses his issues also. Sorry for any superfluous data.
> 
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