[mythtv-users] CentOS and Mythtv

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:00:56PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:25:03 Tom Lichti wrote:
> > Dale Christ wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried using CentOS (I's probably use 5 when it completes
> > > beta) for MythTV?  I'm curious to see if it more stable than Fedora
> > > Core 6.  Thanks.
> >
> > I have a CentOS 4.4 frontend only running current SVN, and it works
> > fine, no problems. I haven't tried it as a backend though.
> 
> RHEL4/CentOS4 blows for a backend, at least if HDTV figures into the equation. 
> Most DVB drivers don't build on such an aged kernel. RHEL5/CentOS5 doesn't 
> have drivers out of the box for most capture cards either, but they can be 
> built and provided via kernel module rpms (and Axel is already planning to do 
> so).

You mean this? :=)

http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/video4linux/
http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/ivtv/

> EL5 should indeed make for a rather nice platform.

I think all bits are there for CentOS5 based mythtv boxes, but
CentOS5. :)

> Out of curiosity, what exactly has been unstable with FC6? I've never had any 
> issues with it myself, outside of the occasional kernel regression (i.e., 
> cx88-dvb autoload breaking, but we have that fixed in the next kernel release 
> after 2.6.20-1.2933.fc6).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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