[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out
Stefan G. Weichinger
lists at xunil.at
Thu Oct 3 07:29:17 UTC 2013
Am 02.10.2013 16:44, schrieb Rich Freeman:
> I might see if I can write things up in a blog entry (if so it will go
> on planet gentoo). The biggest pain wasn't getting PXE+NFS working
> (no harder than setting up minimyth really), but fully building the
> front-end from scratch (lirc, X11 config for HDMI out, etc). I recall
> also having artifact problems with decoding video and such - I think
> mythtv 0.26 fixed that for me (newer version of bundled ffmpeg -
> videos would play fine with Gentoo's ffmpeg or mplayer, but not with
> the mythtv-bundled mythffmpeg).
>
> Oh, one thing I did do is just test the PXE+NFS from a diskless VM
> before moving to the actual front-end, so that I could take my time
> without messing up the TV. That doesn't help with some of the X11 and
> lirc work, but you can get pretty far on a VM.
>
> If anything working with NFS is much simpler - the kernel is the only
> thing that really needs special handling (and that is just a matter of
> replacing a file on the tftp server) - otherwise it is just like
> updating a chroot.
Thanks for your infos ... for now I can live with 0.26 as I will be away
for the next days.
I consider to "simply" install something on a hdd for the frontend ...
but AFAI see even mythbuntu is still on 0.25 (!?).
Anyway. My backend records ... OK so far ;-)
thanks, greetings, Stefan
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