[mythtv] Which Distro?

[Tony Clark]

To be quite honest I really don't know.  On an xp1800 currently recording here 
is what I get, it should be recording in mpeg4.

22225 tony      15   0 37316  32M  8040 S    29.4  3.2   6:33 mythfrontend

Watching tv pushes it up for sure.  I can dual boot RH and Gentoo on this box 
so I may do some tests but I don't think it will be much different.  I just 
perfer Gentoo :)

tony


On Monday 23 December 2002 20.53, mark@zzo.com wrote:
> Hey Tony,
>     I'm very interested in any performance differences between a Gentoo
> compiled specifically for your machine vs. a stock RH8....
>     tanx,
>         Mark
>
> Tony Clark(tclark@telia.com)@2002.12.22 10:36:50 +0000:
> > I normaly use Gentoo but for kicks I set up another box with RH8.  It
> > worked pretty well.  I've just converted the box over to Gentoo though,
> > as I am interested to see if the optimisation that you get with Gentoo
> > gives any real advantages.  It should and it maybe a good choice for
> > those light on processor grunt.
> >
> > I think you have to expect some issues with Mythtv as it is still in
> > heavy development mode.  0.7 is quite stable but still has a few quirks. 
> > It would be nice to see 0.8 out or maybe even a back port of some of the
> > bug fixes and make a 0.71.  To maintain the current 0.7 would require
> > someone with the necessary skill and interest to do it.  The current
> > developers seem to be pretty busy getting stuff done for the next release
> > and it wouldn't be fair to asked them to back port patchs.  I would help
> > but I'm no c++ programer.
> >
> > tony
> >
> > On Sunday 22 December 2002 09.45, Mike Payson wrote:
> > > Which distribution is recommended for use with MythTV? I've been using
> > > Gentoo, but I've run into some (probably minor) issues that are making
> > > me think that it might be easier to just start over with a different
> > > distribution. FreeplayTV recommends Slackware, but gives no
> > > rationalizations for that decision. What's going to be the easiest to
> > > get up & running with?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> >
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