[mythtv-users] Operating System of choice ?

[Peter Dash]

> > at least what I've read the archives of this mailing list, quite many
> > are using Fedora Core, so is there a reason for that ? Also has
> > anybody used MythTV on OpenBSD ?
> 
> You can't do the backend on BSD.  You need Video4Linux support (which,
> as the name implies, is lacking from BSD).  There has been some work on
> getting the frontend ported to BSD, but I don't know how far it has
> gone.  Search the archives for more details (
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/ ).
> 

There are people that have the backend running on FreeBSD - see
http://mythtv.son.org/tiki-index.php for details. Basically they have
recording and playback working as well as livetv but, as they say, it
'needs more testing'. It also only seems to work with a PVR250 (only
card with semi-stable drivers) at the moment. I wouldn't mind
switching back to BSD and this certainly looks promising... I might
have to have a play on the weekend.

Peter.