[mythtv-users] Re: Choice of Linux distro?

[Sam Gibbons]

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 06:15, Torsten Schenkel wrote:
> I'm talking of upgrades between major revisions (keeping an installed
> base coherent and up to date on > 10 different machines for > 5 years
> without loosing package database integrity)
> 

Roger that. I have my two main servers (vanity mail, web, ftp, etc)
running off of two Debian testing boxes for nearly three years. I
couldn't recommend Debian enough for those who can navigate through the
rough installer and don't mind a little fine tuning to get X to work
etc...

> > For your first time, this is the road of choice. If there is one thing
> > Red Hat (and hence Fedora) does well is making polished and streamlined
> > installation programs.
> 
> Fully ACK, and also ACK to the fact that redhat has some nice backports
> to the kernel tree. But this also makes it a PITA to compile your own
> kernels/modules on a redhat system.
> 

I just like the fact that I can throw Fedora on a n00bs system within 30
minutes or so and actually have everything working correctly. I know
this goes well off topic, but that has always been the barrier to the
desktop market for Linux: Ease of Install. That is then followed by a
Polished Interface (GUI). Fedora (RH) has both.

> You are trying to play back using the fb as video display. You aren't
> using the decoder.
> 
> Try 
> 
> dd if=test.mpg of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
> 
> Don't load the ivtv-fb module or set
> 
> ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -globalalpha
> 
> before, and
> 
> ivtvfbctl /dev/fb0 -nolocalalpha
> 
> after the dd.
> 
> In mythtv you have to set tv playback to use the pvr350 decoder in the
> configure screens.

Thanks, I will go over those commands again when I get home. I did think
it was weird that when I ran them the first time, nothing happened. I
got TV-Out to work anyway but it was soooo choppy I gave up and went
back to my GeForce. Myth was obviously not using the decoder. I just
thought it was poor support by the driver. Silly me.

Thanks.

Sam