[mythtv-users] MythTV Development Pattern (was: Re: 0.19, XvMC, and Prebuffer pause)

[Jesse Guardiani]

James Dastrup wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:35 -0500, Steve Malenfant wrote:
>   
>> I know it seems easier to upgrade than to fix the problem, but some
>> people have issues with high PCs and 0.19...
>>  
>> A 1.6Ghz Duron with MX440 was enough for me to play HD on 0.18...  Now
>> my setup that was working in 0.18 on my P4 2.4 with FX5200 isn't
>> working without prebuffering anymore.
>>  
>>     
>
>
> Yep, 0.19 brought on a whole new set of problems. That's why I'm still
> running 0.18.1. Especially the new way LiveTV is handled; although a
> good idea and going in the right direction, it's buggy. So, in addition
> to avoiding XvMC, I'm avoiding 0.19 as well, for now.
>   

I know I've got no say in the matter, as I haven't contributed a single 
line of code, but I think it
would be nice to have a stable and development branch of MythTV. The 
stability/bug fixes go into
the old branch, the new features go into the devel branch.

Lots of large projects use this structure. I think MythTV has become 
large enough and popular
enough to need it too.

I think the problem is that it requires additional administrative 
overhead. Patches need to be backported
on a regular basis, etc.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net