# Luther is accessible on LAN as lutherb - 'b' because of the # ethernet card currently used (of the two it has) was # previously assigned this name via BoulderServer.
This has been changed as of before 10 Aug. 2007 to just be 'luther' or 'luthera'
Also have adjusted /etc/fstab to mount NFS shares from BoulderServer at /mnt/common/ Line added in /etc/fstab:
boulderserver:/mnt/shared /mnt/commons nfs defaults,rw
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If on boot up, the MythTV client goes into a configuration mode, it seems that MySQL, MythTV backend, etc. have started up in the wrong order. This can be corrected by logging in as root, and running the alias mythreset, defined as:
alias mythreset='cd /etc/init.d/;./mythtv-backend stop && ./mysql restart && ./mythtv-backend start ; cd -; '
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Have found, via google, that while the channel etc. cannot be changed this way, whatever is comming in and accepted by the tuner card can be dumped to a file by a simple command line
$cat /dev/video0 > whatever.mpg
Currently have an alias defined in /root/.bashrc to do this with some display of progress:
alias vcapture="dd_rescue -vAl video.log /dev/video0 " ;
use: $vcapture whatever.mpg
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can view the tuner via:
$mplayer -vo cvidix /dev/video0
or using
alias cplayer='mplayer -vo cvidix ' ;
defined in /root/.bashrc:
$cplayer /dev/video0
again this simply takes whatever the tuner card is tuned to.
'-vo sdl' also 'works', but trashes the scan frequency for the virtual console it starts in, seems to need to reboot into a usable state for command line etc. Further research may yield a way to reset after this, but it is not now known.
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What channel is tuned to etc. however can be set at the command line by telneting to port 6546 (as documented in MythTV handbook) and using 'help' to get commands available, 'help jump' where in the menu structure you can go to, 'exit' to leave etc.
Using kermit, for example:
C-Kermit>telnet lutherb 6546
to open session.
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command line to burn an iso:
#growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdb=STEPPENWOLF.iso
This is not what I normally use on Debian (cdrecord derivative 'wodim'), and is part of the dvd+rw-tools package Wodim does not seem to be available on Ubuntu yet. It may though reflect more about how much you really have control over burning dvd's, since it has almost no control switches, compared to wodim, which seems to ignore most switches when burning DVDs.
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Note that the burner /dev/hdb on Luther uses DVD+XX <-- NOTE: '+' blanks.
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