MythTV 0.22 release candidate

In article , Andy
Burns writes

Do you want DVB-T or DVB-S?

Sorry, should have thought. DVB-T, if my understanding is correct and
that means Freeview. If it works out, I'd be interested in a DVB-S card
too as I have an unused dish stuck to the wall of my flat.

--
Mike Tomlinson

Hiya,
You can do that but it is a bit fiddly with sources. I have started to
play with Multicast IP using VideoLan as the streaming server, and each
machine being a full backend and frontend setup taking media from the
multicast streams.

This means you can mix DVB-S and DVB-T (freeview) transparenty, so you
can run BBC HD and Freeview on one system, and using the Radio Times XML
server, via XMLTV.

Have a look at:

http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/gene...-can-done.html

I did get it working in a fashion. The VideoLan side was too prone to
crashing to make it production proposition, although I am going back to
it just now having built a 14 PCI slot system as my server.

I am hoping to produce a VOD server plug in too for pay to view TV for
use on hotels etc etc.

Rob.


Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article , Andy
Burns writes

Do you want DVB-T or DVB-S?

Sorry, should have thought. DVB-T, if my understanding is correct and
that means Freeview. If it works out, I'd be interested in a DVB-S card
too as I have an unused dish stuck to the wall of my flat.

On Nov 2, 8:58*pm, "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...oes_MythTV_run...

Roger R

I've recently installed Ubuntu against my windows install. I'm getting
to like it quite a bit.

"Dave Farrance" wrote in message
...
"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.

Interesting, but I hear Nick Griffin's name mentioned a lot in the media
these days, does that mean that he is the UK's favourite politician?
Also many people only post to newsgroups when they have a problem with
something. However I don't dispute that Ubuntu and Debian are probably the
most popular.

Z

"Mike" wrote in message
...

I've recently installed Ubuntu against my windows install. I'm getting
to like it quite a bit.


Thanks to those who replied to my enquiry for your recommendations.

Roger R

Zimmy wrote:
"Dave Farrance" wrote in message
...
"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.

Interesting, but I hear Nick Griffin's name mentioned a lot in the media
these days, does that mean that he is the UK's favourite politician?
Also many people only post to newsgroups when they have a problem with
something. However I don't dispute that Ubuntu and Debian are probably the
most popular.

Z


Nicely put.

Rob.

Dave Farrance wrote:
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".

I like Debian for the exact opposite.

Rob.

The message
from brushhead contains these words:

Dave Farrance wrote:
"Roger R" wrote:

===snip===


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.

Nicely put!

I was wondering whether anyone was going to point out (what aught to
have been) the bleedin' obvious (and I'm only a closet newbie![1] ;-)

[1] Someone who managed to install SuSE from off of the CD in the back
of that "Linux For Dummies" book and then promptly thought "Now What?"
but dabbled off and on over the next ten years or so and _still_ uses
the Dummies book as a reference when doing something 'arcane' in a
Knoppix Live CD session (usually when trying to fix a borked winXP box
or else repairing USB induced FS errors on my Ext2 formatted external
drives that I normally use with a win2k box

--
Regards, John.

Please remove the "ohggcyht" before replying.
The address has been munged to reject Spam-bots.

Johnny B Good wrote:

I was wondering whether anyone was going to point out (what aught to
have been) the bleedin' obvious (and I'm only a closet newbie![1] ;-)

It did occur to me that the list would be partly reflective of the number
of people that are forced to call for help by a given distro, which of
course is not good thing. However, in recent years, newbies tend to go to
one of the multiplicity of linux-help web-forums -- and Usenet tends to be
the haunt of the more experienced user. Since Google-Groups just gave me a
list of occurrences of a keyword between two dates, it would also catch
most of the followups to a given query, which would be reflective of the
usage, and especially of the number of people ready to give advice on a
given distro.

Anyway, the final result did seem to reflect my impression of UK usage. I
doubt that you'll find Debian placed just off the top of any other distro
popularity survey. Distros that I've seen in the workplace, used as
servers, tended to be RedHat/Fedora or SUSE. If the content of
uk.comp.os.linux is a guide, then the Linux gurus tend to use Debian as a
server, although I've not personally bumped into any. UK magazines (which
are probably less of an influence now in the wide-pipe broadband era than
they were in the past) have tended to provide cover disks that invited
readers to install Ubuntu, Mandriva and SUSE, in that order, and that
seems representative of the usage by home user enthusiasts that I've
happened to meet - and those distros are fine for those that mainly use
their PC as a multimedia machine or net-top.

I've not visited any Linux user groups, where I suspect that Debian would
rule the roost, especially among those that get involved in coding (and
also it seems, among those that choose a distro out of pretension). Not
that I've got anything against Debian. Now that my laptop is over five
years old, I'm considering switching it to the current distro that is most
stable on older hardware, and yet has good community support, and that
*is* likely to be Debian.

--
Dave Farrance

FWIW, I also use a copy of Debian at home, but running on an XBox (v1).
Once the distribution is installed (which for an XBox was easy as someone
else had already figured out how!) maintenance is quite painless -
surprisingly so for a Windows user like myself (but be warned, I program for
a living so the lack of a GUI doesn't phase me ;-) ).

The XBox has a 500GB disk installed (huge at the time) and was an amusing
way for me top build a file server rather than buy one off-the-shelf.

My employers also use RedHat Linux and that seems simple to use to. In many
ways with things like Myth you get down to the platform being used (has
someone tailored a Linux distribution for it) and what user interface is
available.

Paul DS.