Hello there sir, welcome to the forum and thanks for your kind words about my website. It's always nice to hear from someone who has managed to read more than a few pages of it without falling asleep! :lol: I think the NTV550 is a cracking streamer. It's not perfect but IMHO is definitely up there w...

OK, we need to delve a bit deeper........ Can you show me the script please: cat /home/yoram/MyScripts/StartVNC.sh Also, please send me a screendump of the output from this command too: . /home/yoram/MyScripts/StartVNC.sh What happens when you click the "Run Now" button on the Webmin scree...

Hi Yoram,

Ah, your script does not have execute permissions. So, issue the following command to fix:
then try again and let us know how you get on

Oh dear. I'm sorry to hear that freddy_boy. Very sorry indeed. I feel we've let you down :-( I've been reading about lots of bugs with MythTV on Ubuntu 10.10. Race conditions and flaky tuner drivers and the like. Generally just a nightmare. Is that what version you were using? I gave up on 10.10 and...

Mr HaveTheKnowHow? That's a new one :lolno: Just kidding. This thread is a great ice-breaker, thanks for starting it Pete :thumbup: The forum has only been going since the start of this year. I used to encourage people to email me directly or post on my blog. The blog became a total mess with no str...

Hi gunplt, Thanks for your kind words. If you've been using linux variants for a few years then you could probably teach me a thing or two ;) 10.10 is quite buggy so you might want to consider using 10.04 before you get too far down the road with your media server. However, you should still be able ...

Ah, ok. Well, sounds like you don't have just the one problem then!

Let's check your tuner is working properly. Download and install TVTuner and see whether you can watch TV. If you can then we have one less issue to solve

Does it? It looks better to me

Have you linked your tuner and video sources together? Step 4 on the MythTV Guide.

Did you try watching live-tv after you restarted the mthtv backend?

I'm struggling

Make a note of the date & time and then please restart the backend:
and then Then run through the MythTV Backend Setup again and see whether you see the same errors in the mythbackend log file.

Incase you're wondering, this is the section that is troubling me....... Is your frontend and the backend on the same machine? 2011-02-09 22:55:40.687 Empty LocalHostName. 2011-02-09 22:55:40.695 Using localhost value of Neptune 2011-02-09 22:55:40.711 New DB connection, total: 1 2011-02-09 22:55:40...