[mythtv-users] Mything thomething

[Mark Lord]

On 11-05-28 01:22 PM, Tyler T wrote:
>> 2) you're constantly chasing your tail with dependency hell trying to
>> maintain stable, production quality systems with different
>> distributions of linux using different versions of the dependant tools
>> which may well be incompatible.
> 
> Just distribute the source code of known working versions of the
> dependent tools with the Myth tarball, and compile them with "myth-"
> prepended onto them as part of the the Myth build process. You don't
> care if your users happen to already have buggy ffmpeg.0.3.5.unstable
> on their system, because Myth brought it's own
> myth-ffmpeg.0.3.1.stable with it and uses only that.

I have the opposite problem.
Mythtv software playback crashes on so many videos I have here now,
that I *have* to force it to use hardware-only playback,
and and I have to use VLC for the videos that crash VDPAU.

I'd love to just upgrade ffmpeg to fix those bugs.
Cheers