[mythtv-users] Mythtv on Xbox

[Tom Lichti]

chris at cpr.homelinux.net wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:49:30PM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote:
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>>Can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list please? I can't seem to get all 
>>dependencies met, specifically libqt3c102-mt.
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>That package has caused me no end of grief.  Debian ("testing", I 
>think) has decided to drop support for the XFree86 xserver and have 
>transition packages in place to force people to switch to XOrg (ie: 
>you ask for one server but get the other).  As part of that forced 
>upgrade, libqt3c102-mt has been replaced by libqt3-mt.  The new 
>libqt3-mt is not backwards compatible (according to the 
>depends/provides list).  Similarly, rather than creating an in-place 
>upgrade for MythTV, the libqt3-mt version is a whole new package that 
>conflicts with the libqt3c102-mt version, requiring you to uninstall 
>MythTV before the upgrade and then reinstall afterwards.  So far only 
>the core MythTV packages (front, back, common, doc, database and web) 
>are available, so after the upgrade you don't have mythvideo, 
>mythdvd, etc.
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>My back-end and mythweb server are working just fine, but the XBox 
>doesn't have a video driver for XOrg and my desktop machine (Radeon 
>card) runs everything else and handles the MythTV menus OK but locks 
>the machine up solid if I try to watch any recordings.  The backend 
>machine can't run nuvexport as it gets into a loop waiting for 
>mythtranscode to setup the fifos.  I don't have any idea what that's 
>all about.
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Well that kind of sucks. I guess my Xbox will just be for games then, 
since if it's not fully functional as a Myth frontend, then it's not 
useful at all.

Darn it.

Tom