[Cialug] Myth Games

Tue Nov 22 13:49:46 CST 2005

I'm runnig mythv on Mandriva, it's now part of one of the extended 
sources (don't recall off-hand if it's in contrib or plf).

-dc

Tom Pohl wrote:
> Personally, I'm a fan of using mythtv RPMs on top of Fedora Core 4.   
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php When I ran knoppmyth, upgrading  
> seemed to be quite broken (probably not the case now).
> 
> The only frustration I've had thus far with this configuration is  
> wanting ffmpeg with aac support so I can create RSS feeds for my  ipod 
> :)  If anyone knows where such a pre-compiled beast might exist  I'd be 
> eternally grateful.  I've tried recompiling, but things seem  to be more 
> broken than I have time in the day to fix!
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, seems that versions of Knoppmyth break things and I'd rather  
>> just stick with what I know given how finniky all this stuff can  be.  
>> The setup was pretty painful but once I get this working  hopefully 
>> it'll run for a year or more before I get the upgrade  urge again.
>>
>> I am, however, using knoppmyth for frontends.
>>
>> --Tnoy
>>
>> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Depends on your machine and whether you are into MAME.
>>> I like it to play frozen bubble sometimes.
>>> Otherwise....
>>> Is there a reason you went the gentoo way instead of knoppmyth?   
>>> Knoppmyth
>>> puts games moives, dvd ripper mythphone mythweb - just gads of  stuff on
>>> without any effort.  Then it's just up to you to tune it and load  
>>> any other
>>> video drivers etc. you may need.
>>> -nate
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com] Sent: Tuesday,  November 
>>> 22, 2005 8:46 AM
>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>> Subject: [Cialug] Myth Games
>>> Is Myth Games worth the work?  I grabbed whatever the default  
>>> version of xmame is from Portage and when I go to the games  submenu 
>>> it complains that the version of xmame isn't supported.   Then I got 
>>> to thinking it may not be worth fixing the problem,  then I got to 
>>> thinking it would be 'cool' if for no other reason  the simple 
>>> selfish geek satisfaction. Anybody else using Myth Games?
>>> ...and is there a way to figure out what version of xmame will  work 
>>> with   Myth 0.18?
>>> --Tony
>>> Bryan Baker wrote:
>>>
>>>> Or - do what is considered best practice on the platform and  leave  
>>>> root
>>>> alone, and sudo any commands that need root priv's. most of the   
>>>> time that ammounts to "sudo vi smb.conf" or whatever.
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Or you can do sudo -s and get a root shell that way too
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:59 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> sudo passwd root
>>>>>> to set root's password and then you can su like any other box :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Tom
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on  
>>>>>>> OSX.  I need root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this  is 
>>>>>>> a new box...what do I need to do?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Tony
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.   I  
>>>>>>>> don't remember off top of my head on the regular desktop  if you 
>>>>>>>> can do it easily, but worst case since you have your  share 
>>>>>>>> already setup,  just edit /etc/smb.conf and change the  share 
>>>>>>>> name.  You'll have to reboot or just restart samba  services 
>>>>>>>> with SystemStarter restart samba. Dan
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to  
>>>>>>>>> simply mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in  the 
>>>>>>>>> name.  Or , at least, I don't know how to make them work  via 
>>>>>>>>> fstab.  The file system I'm trying to mount is:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> //server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I  tried 
>>>>>>>>> a few different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no  avail.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/ 
>>>>>>>>> MusicSymLink to the iTunes folder but that gives errors  about 
>>>>>>>>> a bad share name.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --Tony
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