MythTV 0.22 release candidate

Hiya,
Slight off topic I know but MythTV is hitting v0.22 RC2. Should be a
full release next week.

http://www.mythtv.org

Rob.

"brushhead" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hiya,
Slight off topic I know but MythTV is hitting v0.22 RC2. Should be a full
release next week.

I am a Windows only user but might considering partitioning my hard drive to
install Linux for the first time in order to run this application. Which of
the six Linux distributions on this Wiki page would you recommend for Linux
novice ?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequentl...n_Wind ows.3F

Roger R

Roger R wrote:
"brushhead" wrote in message
o.uk...
Hiya,
Slight off topic I know but MythTV is hitting v0.22 RC2. Should be a full
release next week.

I am a Windows only user but might considering partitioning my hard drive to
install Linux for the first time in order to run this application. Which of
the six Linux distributions on this Wiki page would you recommend for Linux
novice ?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequentl...n_Wind ows.3F

Roger R


Well personally I use Debian but that's a habit. If I was a newbie I
would definitely use Mythbuntu. It's very easy to get going...auto sets
up nVidia drivers and also easy to get remote working and other client
boxes. It does have its own niggles though. I think it'll take a while
for 0.22 to work its way down to Mythbuntu though.

If you want to dive in quickly, I would wait for it to appear on the
debian-multimedia.org repos. There are enough how-to's knocking about,
and I would have thought that the installers and set ups for 0.22 will
be better too. Getting extra clients boxes working with MythTV backend
can be stressful.

Be warned, trying to compile it from source is a ******* (technical term
used a lot in open source). The deps are hell.

I'm happy to offer advice though.

Rob.

"Roger R" wrote:

I am a Windows only user but might considering partitioning my hard drive to
install Linux for the first time in order to run this application. Which of
the six Linux distributions on this Wiki page would you recommend for Linux
novice ?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequentl...n_Wind ows.3F

How about the UK's favourite distro? Last year, using Google-Groups, I
checked how many times that DistroWatch's top 30 distros were mentioned in
the group uk.comp.os.linux during the previous year, and recorded those
that were mentioned more than 25 times. If you want to choose a distro by
basing it on the support that you're likely to get in the uk.* Usenet,
which is as good a reason as any, then maybe this list will be useful.

Ubuntu is at the top, and my recollection seems to be that Mythbuntu is
the most commonly mentioned pre-packaged distro derivative that's focused
upon setting up a standalone MythTV system. Mythbuntu 9.10 has just been
released, quickly following the release of Ubuntu 9.10, so it's also the
most up to date: http://www.mythbuntu.org/


Ubuntu 539
Debian 460
Fedora 225
SUSE/openSUSE 194
Mandriva 121
Kubuntu 106
Slackware 55
Gentoo 65
Puppy 47
Knoppix 41
Red Hat 40
PCLinuxOS 34
Mepis 32
BSD 26

--
Dave Farrance

In article ,
brushhead writes

Well personally I use Debian but that's a habit.

Thanks for the recommend. I'm very familiar with Linux so the choice of
distro is no prob, but what TV decoder hardware would you suggest for
use with MythTV? I need reliable subtitles above all, and I'd like to
watch the output on a remote PC.

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(='.'=) Bunny says Windows 7 is Vi$ta reloaded.
(")_(") http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/windows_7.png

Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article ,
brushhead writes

Well personally I use Debian but that's a habit.

Thanks for the recommend. I'm very familiar with Linux so the choice of
distro is no prob, but what TV decoder hardware would you suggest for
use with MythTV? I need reliable subtitles above all, and I'd like to
watch the output on a remote PC.

Well for satellite i've been using Technisat Skystar 2's, but only a
certain hardware revision, although I think all of them are now
supported in the Kernel. I have just got some hauppauge WinTV Nova S
boards and they seem to be happy.

For Freeview i've been using Terratec 1200 DVB-T devices with
encouraging results. I do strongly suggest you look at:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_Devices
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_Devices

These are the list of currently supported devices, but finding a
reliable supply of them can be a challenge.

Regards,

Rob.

Dave Farrance wrote:
"Roger R" wrote:

I am a Windows only user but might considering partitioning my hard drive to
install Linux for the first time in order to run this application. Which of
the six Linux distributions on this Wiki page would you recommend for Linux
novice ?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frequentl...n_Wind ows.3F

How about the UK's favourite distro? Last year, using Google-Groups, I
checked how many times that DistroWatch's top 30 distros were mentioned in
the group uk.comp.os.linux during the previous year, and recorded those
that were mentioned more than 25 times. If you want to choose a distro by
basing it on the support that you're likely to get in the uk.* Usenet,
which is as good a reason as any, then maybe this list will be useful.

Ubuntu is at the top, and my recollection seems to be that Mythbuntu is
the most commonly mentioned pre-packaged distro derivative that's focused
upon setting up a standalone MythTV system. Mythbuntu 9.10 has just been
released, quickly following the release of Ubuntu 9.10, so it's also the
most up to date: http://www.mythbuntu.org/


Ubuntu 539
Debian 460
Fedora 225
SUSE/openSUSE 194
Mandriva 121
Kubuntu 106
Slackware 55
Gentoo 65
Puppy 47
Knoppix 41
Red Hat 40
PCLinuxOS 34
Mepis 32
BSD 26

Ubuntu is Debian in a dress..

Rob.

On 03/11/09 07:28, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

what TV decoder hardware would you suggest for
use with MythTV?

Do you want DVB-T or DVB-S?

I use a couple of Videomate DVB-T200 cards, SAA713x chipset based, but
check potential card purchases on

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Video_capture_cards

brushhead wrote:

Ubuntu is Debian in a dress..

I'll take your word for it. :-)

I use Mandriva, because I prefer the bleeding-edge update rate, the
KDE-orientation, it's "Cooker" program for transparent development, the
well-maintained "backport" repositories, and the availability of all the
patent-encumbered and DMCA-dodging multimedia apps and codecs which are
packaged for Mandriva by the "Penguin Liberation Front".

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Dave Farrance

In article ,
brushhead writes

I do strongly suggest you look at:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_Devices
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_Devices

Thanks very much. Off to have a good read.

M.

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Mike Tomlinson