[mythtv-users] New MythDora 4.0

[Scott Blachowicz]

"Dennis Hand" <d00dtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> The new and much improved MythDora 4.0 is finally ready. As you will
> see, things have improved greatly. Jarod Wilson and I have worked very
> hard on this and I can safely say that this is the best version yet.
> MythDora has undergone almost a total revamp. Things are in different
> places and paths so be sure to read the changelog.
>
> http://g-ding.tv
> ...

That sounds great! I've been meaning to update my KnoppMyth box (with an
SVN build laid on top of it to get the storage groups stuff) for a while
now. One thing I noticed on the website are these notes:

    *** PVR-350 users that want to use TV-out will need to install the
        ivtv_xdriver and video4linux packages during install.
    *** PVR-x50/500 users may experience problems with ivtv if video4linux
        is installed. Do not install this unless you have too.

I was wondering what problems 500 users may experience? My current setup
has a 350 card driving my SDTV using X/tvout and my extra tuner card is a
500. I'd been thinking of changing to using an nVidia output to improved
stability (would it?). My motherboard is an ABIT NF-M2 nView (which claims
nVidia 6150 onboard) and a PCI-E nVidia 6200 card, so whichever of those I
can get to work...

The rest of the system includes a 40GB boot drive plus a 300GB & a 400GB
drive to use for content storage (which I've currently got my storage
groups setup to use both of). I'm thinking of doing something like this:

1) Make sure all of my myth content stuff is on my 2 big drives.
2) Make backup copies of /etc (and others) to my 2 big drives.
3) Replace my 40GB boot drive with a different drive I've got laying around.
4) Install MythDora 4.0 on that replacement boot drive.
5) Figure out how to get my existing myth content & db hooked into the new
   MythDora 4.0 install. (and do it :))

Anyways - if anyone has any suggestions for approaches to take, I'd
appreciate it!

Thanx,
Scott