[mythtv-users] It's not the TiVo that she loved...

chris at cpr.homelinux.net chris at cpr.homelinux.net
Wed Apr 5 21:33:40 UTC 2006


On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 01:03:29PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> The only thing I find easier about Tivo over Myth currently is setup.

My biggest problem is the lack of proper support for Debian systems:

I haven't been able to use MythVideo, MythDVD or MythMusic on my XBox 
front-end (Xebian 1.1.4, 2.4 kernel) for months because of 
broken/missing dependencies.
On my desktop machine (Debian with 2.6.12 kernel and Radeon 9600) I 
can run mplayer or xine just fine, but if I try to watch a Myth 
recording the X session seems to lock the machine -- the mouse still 
moves but nothing else works and I can't even ping the box (priority 
inversion?).
On the backend machine (Debian with 2.6.15 kernel, no video card) I 
haven't been able to use mythtranscode since September.

Other than that, I love Myth.  Except that some recordings are 
perfect and some are so full of artifacts I can't even play them 
because the frontend keeps pausing all by itself and I have to rewind 
to get it to play through the errors again.  Why does it work the 
second time?  Why does the length of the show keep changing?

-- 
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and 
carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis (1935)


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