Okay - here's where things got very region specific. Jarods guide refers to using Zap2it as a listings source, this is fine if you're in America, but for everyone else, he suggests an alternate listing guide. I chose XMLTV as, well it is the only guide available for NZ that I could find.

The BIG note is, you must use XMLTV version 5.33 or earlier as after 5.33, support for New Zealand listings was dropped because of the lack of commercial program guides and the people who own the programming information continually changing their pages in an attempt to block scraping the code for the current listing data.
Commercial EPG discussions aside, the below steps were required to install and configure XMLTV, given the lack of commercial backing, XMLTV may not be working by the time you attempt this yourself, good luck.

You will need to get the version 5.33 RPM as this is the last release before NZ listings support was dropped.

• Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltv/
• Select the xmltv package
• Choose the file xmltv-0.5.33.tar.bz2 or you can go straight to http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xmltv/xmltv-0.5.33.tar.bz2?download
• Copy the file and extract it then change to the directory it extracts to:

• You will then have to compile and install - I used the following commands:

• tv_grab_nz
• tv_check
• tv_pick_cgi

To fix this we need to:

Select the default option unless this is your first time into MythTV Setup and/or something weird is happenning with your config.

Again, defaults are your friend subject to the caveat above.

The X application should now start and present you with the following options:

• General
• Capture Cards
• Video Sources
• Input Connections
• Channel Editor

Host Address Backend Setup (Screen #1)

These are the default values - I just left them as is.

Host-specific Backend Setup (Screen #2)

Global Backend Setup (Screen #3)

Shutdown/Wakeup Options (Screen #4)

Shutdown/Wakeup Options (Screen #4)

If no capture cards are in the list AND you are using a PAL base LifeView FlyVideo 2000 capture card, try these settings - they worked for me:

Capture Card Setup

In stating the above, I'm not yet getting sound so I may need to twiddle with the Audio Device settings or something.

BEFORE GETTING TO THIS STAGE YOU NEED TO INSTALL XMLTV

Select 'Create a New Video Source' and give it the following attributes

Clicking finish brings up a progress bar within the setup utility, you'll need to <Alt>+<Tab> to the terminal window and allow it to download the list of available channels

Terminal Window

If you respond 'Yes' then you'll download the latest files & settings.

Choosing 'No' will exit the application. Use <Alt>+<Tab> to get back to the setup utility. Use <Ecs> to jump back to the main setup screen

At this point, I exited the setup utility so I could check latest listings data. Once happy with the listings, you need to populate the Myth database using the following command:

This may take awhile, be patient and once completed, go back into the setup utility:

Highlight the Television device and hit <Enter>

Connect source to input

Hit finish and then <Esc> out to the main menu

Channel Options - Common

Channel Options - Common

Channel Options - Common

Channel Options - Common

Channel Options - Common

You'll probably need to jump in and out of Myth during the initial tweaking period to check that the channels are working for you and all appears as it should be.
I've also learned that if your TV signal is weak, then MythTV can hang up and there's not a lot you can do except for <Alt>+<Tab> to a terminal window and kill the front and backends before going back in, adjusting some settings and trying again. To kill the processes all you need to do is:

This will list the process ID(s) of the MythBackend, now all you need to do is kill them:

Once the backend is stopped you'll be able to configure the frontend