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Comment on Configuring Your MCE IR Remote by Abongile

Abongile — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:11:04 +0000

@Colin, I am completely new to linux, so to me home directory is understood as / (root) and the folder as /home but in either case I do not immediately have an lirc folder/directory. The whereis ~/.lirc command gives me everything from linux-headers to man file locations. For good measure I tried placing them in /usr/share/lirc (/mythtv and /mplayer) respectively and moved the runmythtv file from /home/mythtv to /usr/share/mythtv/runmythtv, rebooted and no luck.

I need an even more basic guide e.g. 1) “your home directory is /home/abongile”, 2) cp the files (mythtv and mplayer) from /usr/share/lirc and the runmythtv file to /? 3) rm the files from the other locations 4) reboot 5)Press big green button on MCE remote model 1039 and you should get…. something along these lines would really help.

PS thank for the reply getting responses is very encouraging at what is often a very frustrating experience as it still quiet a learning curve adopting linux.

Comment on Configuring Your MCE IR Remote by colin

colin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:12:37 +0000

@Andrew have checked this out and it does not work on my config either. I can’t say I use it that often but I thought I had it going. Had a quick play around but can’t seem to find the MythTV lirc config skip to this jump point. Will update the post once I have figured it out.

Comment on Configuring Your MCE IR Remote by colin

colin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:09:06 +0000

@Abongile the files need to go into the .lirc folder in your home directory on a standard MythBuntu install. So ~/.lirc/mythtv and ~/.lirc/mplayer
You will need to restart the machine or lirc for the new config files to take affect.
Hope this helps.

Comment on Configuring Your MCE IR Remote by Abongile

Abongile — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:04:04 +0000

I am completely new to linux. I followed the instructions: copied the files as per in the instructions, including making runmythtv executable. However I don’t know how check that mythtv is using the new lirc files or how to point it to them. Could I have put them in wrong place (/etc/lirc/mythtv and /etc/lirc/mplayer)? I see that lirc is also in /usr/share/lirc. I apologise if this is not the right place to ask. Please help!

Comment on Updated imdb.pl for getting hi-res movie posters by colin

colin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:17:52 +0000

@J personally I have stopped using this script and now use the one from http://code.google.com/p/fill-mythvideo-metadata/ - it’s far superior.

Comment on Automatically Convert Radio Shows To MP3 Format by colin

colin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:16:33 +0000

@j does your backend log have any messages about this when you run the job? (tail -f -n 100 /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log then run the job to encode the mp3)

At a guess it’s probably either your file permissions or you have not compiled ffmpeg properly. The mythbackend log will reveal all!

Comment on Automatically Convert Radio Shows To MP3 Format by J

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:34:31 +0000

I followed your guide, doesn’t seem to be saving an mp3 anywhere, I tried using locate but nothing found, and I did change the script to suit my install, ie the recordings i/p and o/p files

Comment on Updated imdb.pl for getting hi-res movie posters by J

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:30:13 +0000

pretty good, one issue, the director field is no longer working

Comment on Configuring Your MCE IR Remote by Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:12:40 +0000

Nice work.

The one thing I cant seem to get to work is direct access of the Recorded TV screen from LiveTV. The Key mapping below does not seem to work for me;

begin
remote = mceusb
prog = mythtv
button = RecTV
config = ;
repeat = 0
delay = 0
end

Any ideas as to why the above does not work?

All the best

Andrew

Comment on Updated imdb.pl for getting hi-res movie posters by anon

anon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:43:11 +0000

Thank you! I updated my imdb.pl getMoviePoster subroutine with your code and it can now get movie posters from impawards.com.