MYTHMEDIASERVER(1)

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version 36.0+fixes.20260401.1385cbfc60 · 5 versions
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✨ NAME ✨

mythmediaserver — MythTV Media Server, aka the backend's little file-serving bestie 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first, here's the fit check, verbatim:

mythmediaserver version: fixes/36
[v36.0+fixes.20260401.1385cbfc60-0ubuntu3] www.mythtv.org

So MythMediaServer is a daemon that literally is the backend file server. The whole point? It lets machines that have no tuners still get at remote file storage — because a box with no tuners can't run a backend, bestie, it just can't. So this daemon pulls up and handles the files instead. main character behavior, honestly 💅

🎀 Misc. Options 🎀

  • -d, --daemon — fork the application into the background after startup. she leaves the group chat and keeps working, iconic ✨
  • -O, --override-setting — override a single setting, defined by a key=value pair. one setting, one override, no cap
  • --override-settings-file — point it at a file full of key=value pairs and it loads them all up for setting overrides. bulk edit energy 🍓
  • -p, --pidfile — write the PID of the application to filename 📝
  • -h, --help, --usage — display this help printout, or give detailed information of a selected option. so if you're confused, just ask her, she'll explain 🧚
  • --version — display version information. know your queen's era 👑

💖 Logging Options 💖

  • --loglevel — set the logging level. every log message at a lower level than this one gets discarded (sorry babe, blocked). in descending order: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice, info, debug, trace, and it defaults to info. so emerg = the most serious, trace = the most extra 🙈
  • --loglong — use the long log format for the console, i.e. show the file, the line number, etc. in the console log. yes she's verbose AND detailed, it's giving full transparency ✨
  • --logpath — writes logging messages to a file in the directory logpath, with filenames in this format: applicationName.date.pid.log. this is typically used in combination with --daemon, and if you also use it with --pidfile, you can pair it up with log rotators — you just use the HUP call to inform MythTV to reload the file 🔄
  • -q, --quiet — don't log to the console (-q). don't log anywhere at all (-q -q). double quiet = she's not speaking to anyone, she's in her silent era 💀
  • --syslog — set the syslog logging facility. set it to "none" to disable it, and it defaults to none. so yeah, off by default, she's lowkey minding her business 🌸
  • --systemd-journal — use systemd-journal instead of syslog. different journal, same vibe 🦋
  • -v, --verbose — specify log filtering. use -v help for level info. she's got a whole menu, just ask 👑
fr fr, don't sleep on -v help — that's where the level tea lives ☕

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was mythmediaserver 36.0+fixes.202..., dated August 2026, filed under User Commands in the manual. go serve those files, you absolute icon 🌈💜

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