[mythtv-users] More problems than it's worth?

[Stuart Larson]

> Initially I thought MythTV was THE ANSWER. But reading these lists, it
> seems that MythTV is more of a headache than a godsend. I'm not about to
> invest a few thousand in hardware into a problem ridden system.
> Here's the question...
> How many of you actually use MythTV to...
> Time delay live TV, watch DVDs, schedule recordings, listen to music, and
> view pictures and actually have things work without reboots etc?
>
> J. Minihane
>
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Not counting updating to .19, my mythbox (and remote frontend) have been
up at least a month without having to restart.  That includes scheduling
and recording about 4-5 shows a day, as well as time delayed live TV - I
frequently just pause TV on a show I want to watch, go to the store or
whatever, come back and keep watching, then skip the commercials.  I don't
use the DVD portion, as I have a standalone player that I use...  I have a
lot of MP3's and a few pictures in the gallery as well... overall it is
VERY usable.  I'm not, however, doing anything special like digital or HD,
but for what I use it for, it's great.

If you have a system lying around (my inital mythbox was an 800mhz machine
I had sitting around, and it worked great as well), just try knoppmyth...
shouldn't be too difficult to get going.