[myth-ie] new install today after three years

[Brendan Kehoe]

Yesterday I had the day off and decided to grab the moment of an empty 
house and do a new MythTV install on the box that's been running for 
more than three years pretty much non-stop.  The disk response is a 
little slower and dmesg shows read problems every once in a while.  I 
want to jump to new disks before this one flails on me when I've got no 
time to hack together a system. :)

I spent the afternoon taking out my existing 250Gb disk from the Shuttle 
PC, and in its place put in two 500GB disks.  I had to use the Ubuntu 
Server 7.10 distribution to be able to set the disks up as a RAID1 
mirror (for all of /, swap, and /video).  But then I could install the 
various mythbuntu and mythtv packages to get things rolling.

That was last night, with a total of about 5 hours spent on it.  (Well, 
subtract about an hour doing the physical stuff and then discovering the 
Mythbuntu 7.10 install CD doesn't have any concept of RAID or MD support.)

I've got today to do the rest, including:

   1. getting lirc and the remote to work, which seems to be adjusting
      ~/.mythtv/lircrc or just replacing it with the old one?;
   2. make ivtv work so I can do video off the PVR350 card again (last
      night and today I've just been using the nvidia card);
   3. fix sound which isn't coming out at the moment
   4. make toggleAudio script work so the Mute button works properly
   5. drop in my red_eye stuff so it'll be able to change the channels;
   6. figure out why mythtvsetup didn't have anything about scripts to
      fill the database
   7. write some perl scripts to add all of the channels using a dump of
      the previous mythtv, but along the way also change the channel
      numbers to match 1:1 to the numbers used by the NTL box.  So the
      MythTV box will go to channel 202 for Sky News instead of channel
      55. :-D  Will also need to adjust the input number since my
      previous install had two (when I tried NTL analog as well).
   8. make mythfilldatabase work
   9. check that weekly mythfilldatabase runs work
  10. use the perl scripts to pull in all of the info about the
      recordings done before
  11. do the same to pull in scheduled entries and the history of what
      it's already done
  12. copy over the actual recording files.  (The previous 250GB is now
      in an external disk enclosure plugged into the Shuttle PC via USB2.)
  13. set up xine (or mplayer or something else but xine worked best
      last time) and codecs it may need
  14. add my other filler scripts using entertainment.ie and mgm
  15. set up mythweb
  16. set up the Samba share of /video
  17. set up channel icons
  18. look at setting up realplayer for .rmvb files
  19. look into SVN fixes mentioned on a blog somewhere

So far so good.  For some reason movement on the screen when I press the 
remote has a slight lag, but I've not looked into the 'delay' param 
that's next to 'repeat' and 'config' in the new generated lircrc.  Using 
'irw' it's clear that things come in fine, but it's the actual 
using/processing of them that seems to take longer.

I'll share as things progress or once it's finished. :-)

B