[mythtv-users] MythTV On Gentoo - Thoughts and Questions

[Richard J. Sears]

Thanks David - 

I will be running the backend on a Dual Athlon (2400's). Hopefully this
will be fast enough for my backend.

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 06:54:46 +0000
David Morrison <themorrisons at btconnect.com> wrote:

> Richard J. Sears wrote:
> 
> >Richard - 
> >
> >Thanks to you (and others) for the great feedback. I had a few more
> >problems with Asterisk and the addon's :-)
> >
> >Couple of quick questions. First, would you share your make.conf USE
> >flags with me so I get them right the first time and second, Did you use
> >KDE or Gnome..?
> >
> >Thanks Again !!
> >
> >On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:11:51 +0100
> >Rickard Olsson <richie at webhackande.se> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Richard J. Sears wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I guess I was wondering what you Gentoo folks thought about this. Did
> >>>you use  emerge to do the job, did you have trouble later patching and
> >>>compiling addons or other programs to make MythTV the best it could..?
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I used the CVS just before 0.17 came out and the ebuilds when it was 
> >>released. The ebuilds were a no-brainer to setup. There are some USE 
> >>flags that you need for stuff like nuvexport and ffmpeg that I haven't 
> >>seen documented anywhere (aac, threads and another that I don't recall 
> >>right now), but other than that, no problems.
> >>
> >>Most other sundry files are in portage - it's possible that there's 
> >>something missing but I haven't found anything.
> >>
> >>There's been no real need for any config file management issues (MythTV 
> >>has just one config file AFAIK and you normally edit it through 
> >>mythsetup, the rest is in the database).
> >>
> >>
> >>     / Rickard Olsson,IT-Konsult/
> >>    / Telefon: +46 70 635 01 42/
> >>   / http://www.webhackande.se/
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
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> Here's mine too so you can compare which flags to use or pull out. Note
> that this is my everyday box too so there's a lot of other flags in here
> related to other things I use. Also, my box is an AMD Athlon so you
> might want to change the 3dnow and 3dnonoex flags if your's is an Intel.
> 
> USE="nuvexport ffmpeg lirc dvb divx4linux matroska dvdread theora
> truetype encode svga xvid divx gnome gtk kde qt mysql dvd cdr dvdr alsa
> acpi cups dga encode gphoto2 mpeg oggvorbis samba x86 -nls mmx sse 3dnow
> 3dnowex mmxext v4l v4l2 network"
> 
> Also, here's my package.keywords file:
> dave at office Python-CSV $ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
> media-tv/mythtv ~x86
> media-tv/linuxtv-dvb ~x86
> media-plugins/mythweather ~x86
> media-plugins/mythvideo ~x86
> media-plugins/mythgallery ~x86
> media-plugins/mythmusic ~x86
> www-apps/mythweb ~x86
> media-libs/a52dec ~x86
> media-video/ffmpeg ~x86
> 
> And my package.unmask
> 
> dave at office Python-CSV $ cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
> >=media-libs/a52dec-0.7.4-r4
> 
> I needed the ~x86 versions of a52dec and ffmpeg in order to make
> nuvexport work, so if you won't be using those you can remove them.
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I fly because it releases my mind 
from the tyranny of petty things . . 


"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've
never been hurt and dance like you do when nobody's
watching."