[mythtv-users] CentOS and Mythtv

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Thu Apr 5 20:09:58 UTC 2007


On Thursday 05 April 2007 14:13:39 Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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. :)

Gah, I should have known you already had these done (built against actual 
RHEL5), I just got hung up by the fact CentOS 5 isn't yet officially out 
yet. :)

Out of curiosity, any plans to do xfs kernel modules too?

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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