Saturday, February 21, 2009

Fixing the Shoutcast parser in Mythstream

Goddamnit, why does MythTV need to have duplicate config files between /usr/share/mythtv and ~/.mythtv ? Shoutcast's parser broke sometime in September 2008 and after Ruth brought it to my attention I wasted an hour downloading the patched parser to /usr/share/mythtv/mythstream/parsers/ and watched it do nothing -- because as usual Myth defaults to looking in the home directory instead. I seem to recall the same problem configuring MAME.

It seems really improbable that someone's going to cobble together a multiple user mythbox (especially since Mythbuntu mooted having to create a regular user first). I'd make all of ~/.mythtv a link to /usr/share/mythtv if there weren't permission issues with doing so (i.e. updates attempting to insert changes into the home version without rights).

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