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Common Problems, Tips, and Hints

This section has some random tips and hints that may help you with your mythtv setup. As with the rest of this howto, these tips are New Zealand centric, but may apply to the rest of the world.

All the shows are off by 12 (or 13) hours!

Quick fix:

  1. Shutdown the mythbackend.
  2. Run mythtv-setup
  3. Goto General
  4. Under global backend, change the Time Offset field to +1200 (or +1300) if daylight savings. If the field already was +1200 or +1300, then set it to none.
  5. Restart the backend.

One show runs for 12-13 hours

One show on one channel runs for many hours (in one case, 13 hours).

UNKNOWN. Not sure what causes this, the xml data is fine. If you have an answer, please let me know.


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Contact me: zaf@nrc.co.nz with any updates or suggestions, or maybe questions if they are intelligent ones.