NOTE to Red Hat 8.0 users:Red Hat Linux 8.0 ships with Gnome as the default desktop environment. However, Gnome seems to have issues with window focus and window switching which sometimes cause mythfrontend to obscure the video. KDE does not seem to have any such issues. Therefore you will need to switch to KDE by selecting RedHatMenu>Extras>System Settings>Desktop Switching Tool and choose "KDE".
MythTV is "themeable", meaning that the visual appearance of the program
can be modified by the user without re-compiling or altering the program
functionality.
/usr/local/share/mythtv/theme.txt
allows you to alter the theme
for MythTV. The default theme is called "blue". Other themes that ship
with MythTV can be found in the /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes
directory.
A script for adding DirecTV information into the database has been written by tarek Lubani mailto:tarek@tarek.2y.net and is available at http://tarek.2y.net/myth/ppv.pl. This is currently an external user-supplied program, so if you have issues with the script, please contact the author.
MythTV supports changing the channel on an external tuner. If you have
an external tuner, such as a DirecTV or digital cable set top box, you
should add /usr/local/bin/changechannel
to your Input Connections in the
mythbackend configuration GUI.
The changechannel program is not supplied with MythTV, so this is going to be dependent on what sort of external tuner you have. Example scripts for Sony and RCA receivers can be obtained from http://tarek.2y.net/myth/. This is currently an external user-supplied program, so if you have issues with the script, please contact the author.
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