MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Running MythTV with Wine

On Debian & Ubuntu, Wine can be installed by:

At a terminal in the directory where the build script ran type:

IMPORTANT Add the -p option for the first run only to force a database configuration. The remaining options force mythfrontend to run inside a managed window (in case of problems).

Select your country and language and press Save to proceed to the MythTV servers page. Using the tab key, select Manual then press [return]. Proceed to the Setup page, select General and proceed to the database settings page.

• Set LocalHostName otherwise you will overwrite your current Linux settings.
• Ensure that 'Ping test server' is disabled.
• Set the database name, username and password.
• You may experience a crash after confirming the database setup. Don't worry, re-start without the '-p' and all will be OK.

MythTV settings are stored in c:/users/[name]/.xmyth. To use a different location prepend MYTHCONFDIR=z:<path>

When the MythTV GUI is displayed, ensure to choose 'settings'. I found it necessary to go though most of the settings pages and re-enter sensible values before everything worked. Most of the changes have no effect until you exit and restart mythfrontend.

What works:

• UI Painter using Qt, OpenGL & Direct3D.
• Sound, best with DirectX.
• TV playback works with Direct3D and OpenGL
• MythVideo. You may need to add "-O DVDDeviceLocation=e:" to the command line to play DVDs
• MythMusic plays files OK but not CDs
• MythGallery.
• MythBrowser
• MythNews
• mythbackend
• mythtv-setup

What doesn't work:

• Various niggling crashes here & there.
• MythArchive
• MythGame
• MythNetvision
• MythWeather
• MythZoneminder

Untested:

• mytharchivehelper
• mythcommflag
• mythfilldatabase
• mythfillnetvision
• mythjobqueue
• mythlcdserver
• mythmessage
• mythpreviewgen
• mythshutdown
• mythwelcome
• mythzmserver