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Jimmer: Is there something special with the artwork that is not downloaded in the sql database? Does the title exactly match the first part of the artwork filename?

Could you also check if there is any artwork in ~/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/pvr.mythtv.cmyth/cache/
that are not displayed. If you have a lot of artwork it can take a while before it is transfered.

~/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/pvr.mythtv.cmyth/cache/coverart

and

~/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/pvr.mythtv.cmyth/cache/fanart

on my system are both empty directories. I assumed that the add-on pulled the info for each show from thetvdb or something? I haven't set any coverart or fanart in the mythbackend.

My addon only fetch the fanart/coverart from the mythbackend. It doesn't use the scrapers in XBMC (That would be nice but should go into the xbmc PVR code and not as a specific addon code). On my setup the mythfrontend seems to pull down the artwork without any user setup but that is with v0.24. Don't know about 0.23. In 0.25 the backend is responsible for pulling down the metadata so it should work better (no need to use the frontend) but I haven't stated testing 0.25 yet. I suppose it is also a requirement that the storagegroups are setup correctly.

Looks like live TV is having problems (see my post above) with the latest master from github, not just with myth 0.24, but also with my myth 0.23.1-fixes installation. Has anyone got live TV working successfully with any version of myth using the current github master?

It works fine (obviously) on my two systems (windows 7/Mythbuntu 11.04).

However when using XBMC, I browse the LiveTV guide, it pulls down the EPG fine but then when I select a channel the working status indicator comes up and no liveTV stream is played

Looks like the storage group is not setup properly on the backend. Shouldn't affect the LiveTV though. Could you pastebin a log with the "Include more debug information in the Log" enabled?

at a guess this is what is going wrong when I try and watch live tv

23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] decoding for stream 2 failed
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] decoding for stream 3 failed
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] Could not find codec parameters (Unknown: none ([11][0][0][0] / 0x000B))
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] decoding for stream 4 failed
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] Could not find codec parameters (Unknown: none ([11][0][0][0] / 0x000B))
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] decoding for stream 5 failed
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] Could not find codec parameters (Unknown: none ([11][0][0][0] / 0x000B))
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] decoding for stream 6 failed
23:02:35 T:2769161072 DEBUG: ffmpeg[A50E0B70]: [mpegts] Could not find codec parameters (Unknown: none ([11][0][0][0] / 0x000B))

does this suggest the compile went wrong? I'll try the windows version later to see if I get similar behaviour.

Looks like a problem with ffmpeg. There were some changes in the ffmpeg code with the lastest upstream pull. Did you compile from a freshly cloned source code? Does recorded programs work and is it the same with all channels (HD/non HD).