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Is anyone using MythTV? How easy is it to set up and how does it compare with TVheadend?

I've just discovered TVheadend and think it's a great program but am only just getting to grips with it. Now I've come across MythTV and wondered if I would be better off with that and invest my time setting it up instead...
 
It's definitely not easy to set up...

mythtv-setup
Code: 
Shared object "libjack.so.0" not found, required by "mythtv-setup"

Google doesn't find anything...
 
The Wiki makes it sound relatively easy... but I made no headway after several hours.. Can't get mythtv to build from ports...
 
I am kind of a hack but I see clues right there. The library for jack is not right.
So do a find / -name 'libjack.so*'
Perhaps it comes back with libjack.so.8. I would then make a symbolic link to that file with the name libjack.so.0.
Sort of a file redirector. I am not sure if its the proper way but its worked before for me.
 
I didn't know I needed audio/jack port" href="http://www.freshports.org/audio/jack ">audio/jack ... The install did not pull it in.

I think I need to start from scratch since I've attempted to install so many ports hoping that I stumble across the correct combination..

I'm finding it impossible to run mythtv-setup... Also installing databases/mysql57-server is a big mistake, at least if you don't know what you are doing...
 
tingo said:
FWIW, I think that tvheadend is easier to set up than MythTV.
Click to expand...

That much I know :)... I have managed to set up tvheadend although I'm still struggling to configure it properly so that it can pick up tha same channels as my TV. It seems strange that I get my TV to scan for channels without knowing anything about muxes and services, and I don't even need to know where my nearest transmitter is.

With MythTV, which I would like to have a look at, I'm still struggling with setting up the timezone in MySQL!


mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | mysql -u root -p mysql

results in:-
Code: 
Data too long for column 'Abbreviation' at row 1

and I can't figure out how to fix this.
 
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