Hello all - thinking this is an install question, although maybe it should be under myth - anyway.......

Downloaded r4v5 iso burned a cd and did the auto install on a pos video box I built. It's got a soyo board, 2.53gHz celeron, 512meg ram and a 200gig hdd. Brooktree 848 chipset tuner, and a brooktree 848 capture card (yes 2 cards) - I verified that debian sees all the devices and that everythings pointed where it should be. Here's the prob - I can successfully watch static on all channels, myth won't play a dvd or a cd/vcd and when I try to populate the tv listings mythfilldatabase returns a bunch of "unauthorized" errors.

I've scanned the forums and the wiki and there's comments on fixing individual problems (much of which I tried) but there doesn't seem to be anyone having all these probs at once. Any suggestions on where to start?

Your problems are not connected to one another, so your process of scanning the forum and wiki for each individual issue will bear fruit. I suggest the "DVD won't play" issue is likely the problem that we can't have a decryption program installed on the system by default (US laws) and the mythfilldatabase issue might be a problem with your account with zap2it.com. You DID register and create an account, didn't you?

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