My other concern is that my card is a ATI HDTV Wonder card. From what I read Fedora may be best for this? Has anyone actually used this card with success?<BR><BR><B><I>Raphael Pooser <rpooser@gmail.com></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">jon fuller wrote:<BR>> I'm currently thinking of turning one of my systems into a myth tv, <BR>> but I have a lot of questions which variation of linux is it best to <BR>> put mythtv on? Does Knoppmythtv present any advantage? I've played <BR>> with a few distros and find each has its own advantage disadvantage <BR>> and I'd like to install the best distro for this application.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks,<BR>> Jon<BR>><BR>Each one has it's own ups and downs as you say. Fedora Core has the <BR>advantage of being very widely used, by many on this list, and so people <BR>will be able to help you with distro specific problems as well I
would <BR>imagine. Also if you go FC4 there is Jarod Wilson's guide that you can <BR>apply directly, which a lot of people use and quote in here.<BR>Knoppmyth is another type of beast. You do have the whole Knoppmyth <BR>wiki which is an advantage to have in addition to the regular myth <BR>wiki. The main advantage of this one is that it walks you through the <BR>mythtv setup and configuration as much as possible, and automates what <BR>it can. Also nice is the inclusion of the packages in the distro <BR>itself, so you know it will work and you don't have to hunt around for <BR>them or compile from source if you're not comfortable with linux to that <BR>extent yet. I tried knoppmyth and mythtv was displaying video for me <BR>after about 25 minutes.<BR>It seems that Knoppmyth is the way to go for a first stab at least if <BR>you're worried about the actual mythtv installation process.<BR>Drivers for your hardware are a different story for any distro of <BR>course. That was/is my main
source of problems. Mythtv itself doesn't <BR>cause any of the problems I have had or do have with my system.<BR>I use Ubuntu because all but my graphics card worked the best out of the <BR>box on this distro. It's got a nice wiki and intuitive docs.<BR>There's debian which is Ubuntu's base. It's pretty easy to get mythtv <BR>installed in debian because the packages are maintained.<BR>My advice for starting out would be to try out Knoppmyth and see if it <BR>just works by some stroke of luck. For good documentation and a large <BR>userbase with lots of support, go with FC4. Of course, if have good <BR>linux experience, really any distro will do and it comes down to your <BR>own preference (and who has the kernel you want if you don't plan on <BR>upgrading it after installing, but that's not hard to do at all either).<BR>Raphael<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mythtv-users mailing
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