[mythtv-users] best current RedHat-based distro for simple MythTV

[Another Sillyname]

My guess would be they're related to your video capture?

Do they happen after you've captured something or even after a boot up?

I'm running  Fed22 and using the myth builds from rpmfusion without
any problems.



On 13 July 2015 at 17:51, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> wrote:
>
> I am working to replace my old 0.21 on RedHat 9 FE/BE while the recording
> season is quiet. I want to use a RedHat-based distro because that's what I
> know best and have run on all the workstations and servers in my world
> since the late 1990s.
>
> My MythTV box will be pretty simple: a FE/BE, 2 PVR-500s, and a mid-range
> nVidia card (GT630 I think) capturing analog cable from my provider's
> "basic" plan. I may tinker with digital and HD in the future but I haven't
> yet seen the point of either for my viewing interests. I'd like to add some
> other media-playing to the new box like YouTube, etc but mostly want to get
> my old setup on new hardware before my drives eat dust.
>
> My choices seem to be CentOS 6, CentOS 7, and Fedora 22.
>
> CentOS 6 seems to be a little old given that CentOS 7 has been out for some
> time now.
>
> I tried Fedora 22 but I have to solve the problem of these 2 processes
> burning 100% of my dual-core CPU starting minutes after I boot.
>
>   528 ?        R    1540:53 /usr/lib/udev/v4l_id /dev/vbi0
>   533 ?        R    1540:28 /usr/lib/udev/v4l_id /dev/video33
>
> I can live with the Fedora upgrade cycle - I have been for years, but I can
> appreciate the stability of CentOS and would switch to that but Googling
> for "MythTV on CentOS 7" did not give me much info on running on CentOS 7.
> Mostly talk about waiting for the ATrpms repo to catch up. Lots of info on
> CentOS 6 but I'd rather not go retro with that.
>
> Has anyone tried Fedora 22? Any idea what those processes are?
>
> How about CentOS 7? Good support for nVidia and my PVR-500s?
>
> Did I miss a FAQ somewhere?
>
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