[mythtv-users] Should I be switching to 0.21?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Paul Bender <pebender at san.rr.com> wrote:
>
>  I upgraded my frontends form 0.20.2 to 0.21 without changing any
>  software other than MythTV. Using the same MythTV settings as I did for
>  0.20.2, I have not seen any measurable increase in CPU usage on either
>  my two Athlon64 (single core) + NVIDIA 6150 (XvMC disabled) based
>  frontends, or my one VIA SP8000E (XvMC-VLD enabled) frontend.
>
>   From all the posts, I have not been able to tell whether there are
>  certain hardware configurations that have CPU usage problems, or whether
>  all the CPU usage problems can be attributed to compilation and
>  configuration problems.
>
>  I know that when I updated MiniMyth, it took some configuration work and
>  a couple of patches (all but one of which has been included in fixes) to
>  get 0.21 to work as well as 0.20.2. Once I did, the improvements in DVD
>  menu support made it worth the hassle. I have yet to make much use of
>  the other improvements.
>

Thanks to everyone who has answered. It's all helpful.

My decision here was to keep my old 0.20 server running for a while
but move the PVR cards to the new machine which will be 0.21 based.
I've got the new machine booting a newish Gentoo kernel and am
searching for the right ivtv driver to match with 2.6.24-gentoo-r4.
Hopefully ivtv will come up and I can start recording this evening
using this new server.

In the meantime 4 of the existing frontends will have access to the
older backend and older recordings until I can verify that the new
backend is working well with my local 0.21 frontend. At that time I'll
update the rest of the machines to 0.21 and hopefully everyone will be
happy.

Again, thanks for the responses.

cheers,
Mark