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Here are the problems I'm having with MythTV (on Mythbuntu):
1) My TV Shows are in black, white, and is snowy.
2) MCE remote is not working.
3) Channels not labeled.
4) TV Listing not working (and I have a membership with Schedules Direct).
5) When I turn off my PC, and my DVD+/-R driver tray is open, it won't close automatically like my CD-R driver does.
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1) Not to certain on this one. Check this page here:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_PVR-500 . If you still can't get it to work properly than try posting to the mythtv-users email list for more help.
2) In order to use any remote, LIRC must be installed and running. Check this page for more details:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MCE_Remote
3) Most likely this is connected to your problem in question 4.
4) In order for the TV Listings to properly show your listings, you need to setup your listings source, then download them into the database. Check this page for more details:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Video_Source
5) This is most likely a hardware issue. Some drives will close properly, others will not.
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Here's what I would like to be able to do with MythTV ( on Mythbuntu):
1) Be able to play a DVD Movie via my DVD drive.
2) To copy all of my CD's and DVD's onto my 2nd 500GB HD and be able to play them back.
3) Be able to schedule my TV recordings, store my TV recording on my 2nd HD, and be able to record 2 different shows at the same time.
4) Be able to use pulgins (like, MythWeather, MythNews, MythBrowser, etc)
5) Be able to my Laptop to control and/or changes things on my desktop via a very secure remote access.
6) Be able to remotely print from my Laptop to the printer connected to my desktop (like I can do in Windows).
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I'm going to answer these out of order because some are related and make more sense this way.
1) You need two things to do this. The first is a package called libdvdcss. The second is the MythVideo plugin. libdvdcss must be installed first and should be installed via the Synaptic package manager.
4) Most plugins can be found and installed via the Synaptic package manager. In order to get some to work some setup needs to be done in the MythTV frontend.
3) Scheduling recordings is done by creating a recording schedule. Doing this requires that your listings are available and up to date. See answer to #4 above.
Recording 2 different shows is just a matter of having your capture card setup correctly. MythTV will then decide on which input to use as it needs to.
Storing your recordings on your 500GB HD is actually really easy. Before you get started on it you should change the file system from NTFS to either EXT3 or XFS. XFS will work better with large files, 1/2 hour recordings can be up to 1.5 GB, while EXT3 has better cross compatibility with MS Windows. This can be easily done through a tool called gparted, look for it in your applications menu. Personally I would set the mount point to /mythtv, this way it will be easier to find. The best way to to get Mythtv to use the HD is to change Myths default recording directory so that they all go onto the HD from the very beginning. This can be done from within the mythtv-setup application under Storage Groups.
2) The DVDs can be done with MythVideo and the CDs with MythMusic. Before doing so you need to go into each plugins setup from within the MythTV Frontend and set the default directorys to /mythtv/video for MythVideo and /mythtv/music for MythMusic. See
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythVideo for more info on MythVideo and
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythMusic for more info on MythMusic.
5) There are two ways of going about this. The first if straight SSH. By setting up the
server and just logging in you are able to make use of a secure terminal that will allow you to do most anything. However doing it this way requires that you know how to do stuff with your computer via a command line interface, although this can be a good way to learn.
The other option is to use MythWeb. MythWeb provides a website that is generated by your computer that gives you some abilities to controll MythTV. Mostly it includes setting up recording schedules and watching shows that have already been recorded. This interface is not initially secure but can be secured either via a simple username/password combo in conjuction with an SSL connection or with an SSH tunnel. See this page for more info:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythWeb
Hope all this helps.