[mythtv-users] VDPAU Feedback

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 18:46:47 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 1/17/2012 10:00 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> Beats me why you are beating your head against the wall for a mythbox.
>> For a corporate server, I can see you wanting to run CentOS 6. For a
>> mythbox, I really cannot see any reason why you should not step up and
>> use Fedora 16, with all of the kernel modules recently polished and
>> shiny. And lirc included as a kernel module using dev-input.
>>
>> All of the 'all-in-one' distros use recent kernels. Mythbuntu is up to
>> Ubuntu 11.10 which uses a 3.0 kernel. Linhes is on 2.6.39.
>>
>> A mythbox is supposed to be a tool to be used. Why make it a roadblock?
>>
>> Geoff
>
> Because the same philosophy one applies to a corporate server goes
> doubly with a Myth box.
>
> My two frontend boxes, one in the living room, one in the bedroom, I
> update as *infrequently* as possible. Once I get them up and running and
> I leave them *alone*.
>
> Hmm, what does that remind me of? I know! The cable company. A very
> large *corporation*, whose hardware is on very long support time frames
> and which seems to sit in my A/V closet for years at a time.
>
> I wish Myth would work like that.
>
> That's why I end up focusing on CentOS, the software I use at work. I
> want a MythTV appliance that "just works." I won't get it, but one can
> dream, can't one? Hope springs eternal.

Try LinHES then.

Also *buntu has another LTS release in April, you could try that. I am
still on 10.04, the last LTS release.


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