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''WARNING WORK IN PROGRESS''
 
''WARNING WORK IN PROGRESS''
  
Warning: use of these instruction may harm your computer or data.
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Warning: use of these instruction may harm your computer/s or data.
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Use them at your own risk. etc.etc...
  
Use them at your own risk.
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My goal here is to have a collection of useful hacks for the frustrated beginner intended as a quick and dirty guide to just getting LMCE to work damn it because the wife is a nag nag nagging away. Feel free to edit add and/or change improve or correct this page at anytime after all it is a wiki.
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8.10Beta
  
My goal here is to have a collection of useful hacks for the frustrated beginner intend as a quick and dirty guide to just getting LMCE to work damn it
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lmce 8.10beta as of aug 2010 is at best a bit touchy, but this leads us to the first rule of installing 8.10beta for noobs and that is
  
This guild assumes a stock as you can get, to fresh install as possible, configuration 7.10. With one core and at least one orbitor.
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Rule #1 Hands off mister!!!  Thats right your dual core 3.8Ghz dual channel interleaved 4gb ram beasty is busy so walk away and come back later you'll be happy you did.
  
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**noob tip: on the core ctrl+Alt+F1 ,log in and run "top" at the top right you'll see load,
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if it goes above 5 on a dual core, its too busy for you go away.
  
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Rule #2 Never delete any thing from the admin web site media director page. lmce will go ape shit i'm sure the devs know about this and hate it very very much, just learn not to eff up everything and you will be fine.
  
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==Orbiters - Humans best friend==
 
==Orbiters - Humans best friend==
  
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stub - hmm why can't I control the volume
 
stub - hmm why can't I control the volume
 
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intel bug
  
 
==MythTV Work arounds==
 
==MythTV Work arounds==
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**Deinterlace filter Hell  (defaults to bob(2x)):
 
**Deinterlace filter Hell  (defaults to bob(2x)):
  
Where OB# is the Orbiter number
 
  
''ssh 192.168.80.1''
 
 
''sudo mv /usr/pluto/diskless/OB#/usr/pluto/bin/MythTV_Player /usr/pluto/diskless/OB#/home/mythtv/MythTV_Player.bkup''
 
 
''sudo ln -s /usr/pluto/diskless/OB#/usr/bin/mythfrontend.real /usr/pluto/diskless/OB#/usr/pluto/bin/MythTV_Player''
 
 
Now your settings wont get over written on next startup.
 
 
--Note: this worked last night but after "cleaning up" the basement and moving the core to its new home this morning, mythtv stop working: Benjaminbrown
 
  
 
**LMCE didn't find my crappy old analog tuner card X
 
**LMCE didn't find my crappy old analog tuner card X
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stub - mythfilldatabase
 
stub - mythfilldatabase
 
 
==fuppes (Media Server)==
 
 
**Cool it finds all my media, but I moved/added my files and now lmce can't find them.
 
fuppes needs to be told when to look for more data and what not. Just log in to the lmce admin page located at http://192.168.80.1 and goto: Advanced -> Configuration -> Upnp Server : then click options -> rebuild database or update database
 

Revision as of 05:18, 21 August 2010

This article is a stub and requires expansion


WARNING WORK IN PROGRESS

Warning: use of these instruction may harm your computer/s or data. Use them at your own risk. etc.etc...

My goal here is to have a collection of useful hacks for the frustrated beginner intended as a quick and dirty guide to just getting LMCE to work damn it because the wife is a nag nag nagging away. Feel free to edit add and/or change improve or correct this page at anytime after all it is a wiki.

8.10Beta

lmce 8.10beta as of aug 2010 is at best a bit touchy, but this leads us to the first rule of installing 8.10beta for noobs and that is

Rule #1 Hands off mister!!! Thats right your dual core 3.8Ghz dual channel interleaved 4gb ram beasty is busy so walk away and come back later you'll be happy you did.

**noob tip: on the core ctrl+Alt+F1 ,log in and run "top" at the top right you'll see load,
if it goes above 5 on a dual core, its too busy for you go away.

Rule #2 Never delete any thing from the admin web site media director page. lmce will go ape shit i'm sure the devs know about this and hate it very very much, just learn not to eff up everything and you will be fine.


Orbiters - Humans best friend

    • Whats the ip address of my orbiter:

stub - admin webpage guide

stub - orbiter page

  • Gaining root on an orbiter:

ssh 192.168.80.1

sudo su

ssh ipaddressoforbitor


    • Why can't I control the sound volume?

stub - hmm why can't I control the volume intel bug

MythTV Work arounds

    • Deinterlace filter Hell (defaults to bob(2x)):


    • LMCE didn't find my crappy old analog tuner card X

Don't worry this is normal for old hardware just finish the setup wizard and on each machine with a tuner:

  • more -> Computing -> Mythtv setup: and add your card from here


    • MythBackend Recorders (sound capture will not retain settings)

This has more to do with lmce setting the capture to the first mic it finds on start up.. So just forget about using the fancy internal cd input or, using the line in, and just plug the silly phono jack from the card to the mic. It will save you from to much nagging while still allowing you time to really fix it latter.

stub - Link to real fix using alsactl

    • Guide data

stub - see zap2xml

stub - see mc2xml

stub - mythfilldatabase