[mythtv-users] Any comments about stability of MythTV for mission critical application

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Thu Apr 6 00:14:05 UTC 2006


Aaron P. Uhrig wrote:
>
> I’m new to Linux, but did manage to configure a working MythTV (Myth 
> 0.19 w/ Fedora Core 4) box using the guide at www.wilsonet.com 
> <http://www.wilsonet.com/>. My interest was sparked while researching 
> a computer based digital recording solution for a computer customer of 
> mine. He has a media archive business and records the local news 
> morning, noon and night. He is currently using DVD recorders, but 
> would like to do storage and editing on his computer. For testing 
> purposes, I have setup a MythTV backend and networked it into my home 
> network. I can open the video storage directory on the MythTV box from 
> my windows XP computer and copy, play and edit the videos. Would like 
> to build a machine with three (3) tuner cards. Is MythTV stable enough 
> to use for an application that must work every day?
>
> Thanks
>
I've been running it as our main TV server for about a year and a half, 
with 3 tuners, two backends and 3 or 4 front ends. The only problems I 
have are self inflicted... :)

Tom


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