[mythtv-users] MythTV 0.27 is out

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 02:05:34 UTC 2013


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists at xunil.at> wrote:

> 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 (!?).
>

mythbuntu is on 0.27 if you use the mythbuntu repos (which any *buntu myth
user should do, even if they are sticking to 0.25 or 0.26, as they build
-fixes)
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