In the last week decided to reinstall my server with a fresh Ubuntu 9.10 installation with Myth0.22<br><br>My system components:<br>Asus P5Q MB<br>Q6600 Core2Quad<br>4GB RAM<br>Asus NVidia 8500GT 1GB graphics card<br>OS on PATA Maxtor drive<br>
Media stored on 1.5GB SATA drive<br>Nova-T500 DVB-T twin tuner<br>and a few peripherals<br><br>I burn't a release ISO CD of Ubuntu 910. upon boot/install the option to select the IDE drive was not there, even without the SATA drive connected; this was also true of a Xubuntu 910 cd. I then tried a Ubuntu 904 CD. This allowed the installation to continue; I then completed a successful distribution upgrade before proceeding; this has two drawbacks that I know of:<br>
1) GRUB legacy not GRUB 2 (all* the other systems in the house are running fresh 910 installations so this is the only system with a different GRUB configuration method - no biggie) *yes all; no Windows in the family now!<br>
2) ext3; the boot partition uses the older filesystem rather than the now default ext4<br>I am sure there are ways to correct both of these; but I'm not currently worried about them - unless someone gives me a good reason to complete what are likely risky procedures.<br>
<br>installing 0.22 was a breeze; restoring the DB worked well and the DB upgrade went smoothly. Backend/Setup completing most of the upgrade and the plugins tables upgraded with the frontend.<br><br>setup NFS shares (instead of the previous SAMBA/CIFS as there are no windows systems in the house now).<br>
<br>Impressions of 0.22; much nicer feel of polish to MythUI; my favorite theme is mythcenter (wide) with the retro osd theme. I love the graphite look but I don't like horizontal menus - in my view usability is first priority over style; but hey it's a lovely piece of art. Retro OSD theme works fine on both HD and SD TVs but some of the others don't; with text only squint-readable on my non-HD TVs.<br>
<br>Using the Mythbuntu auto-builds repository for Myth btw.<br><br> - various issues with network APIs (telnet etc); as I discovered when looking to install MythDroid trunk and seeing a few patches need to be applied; I have never built the whole of myth from source and I had to get the system up and running in a relatively short time; so I didn't have the chance to attempt this as well. I am really looking forward to those patches getting committed.<br>
- nvidia 185 drivers outputted on SVideo output in b&w; upgrading to 190 from nvidia website fixed this.<br> - nvidia driver configuration doesn't have permission to write to xorg.conf; minor issue to copy and paste it manually<br>
- seeing a little tearing on playback of videos; about to try the fix from this thread - <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/414353#414353">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/414353#414353</a><br>
- deleting a lot of files from watch recordings screen in a sequence causes frontend to crash (d then UP then ENTER - repeatedly to delete a few programmes in a series - I haven't counted but when you get to around 10 programmes deleted the frontend crashes.)<br>
- MythGallery slideshow displays a grey screen and no image playback; selecting random and using the cursor keys works fine.<br> - mythweb didnt work but googling the error message gave me the answer - I think it was dpkg -i mythtv-common & dpkg -i mythweb and checking the IP address - I didn't need to change it, but it still started working after I completed this and disabled password protect MythWeb - I need to re-enable this manually I guess so I can expose it to the net.<br>
- flash programme playback in mythweb is broken and enabling the flash object in mythweb (I use firefox flashblock) returns me immediately to the main menu.<br><br><br><br>on remote frontend using ubuntu with XCFE4 as desktop - not Xubuntu; I got issues with login with Xubuntu currently. the extra load myth022/NFS (versus 0.21/CIFS) is placing on the system means that there is slight stuttering; I noticed a thread indicating that using the inbuilt myth streaming from the backend is more efficient; so I enabled that; and all now plays flawlessly using slim profile with xvmc (configured screen resolution 1440x900)<br>
<br>(updating the SP13000 with the latest updates from Ubuntu has however broken the gigabit ethernet PCI card in the system - but the onboard 100MB connection is working well).<br><br><br><br>Some general comments about Myth 0.22; lovely, some great work completed by the developers; the transitions between many of the areas with fade work well. to improve usability I would like to see smoothscroll implemented for moving textlists / highlight bars around. I am sure this has been thought of already; and is in progress or a theme developers choice. I guess this would need to be choosable on a per-frontend setting; but it would make it easier to follow for those in the room not pressing the buttons and not knowing the direction of travel (in watch recordings lists for example).<br>
<br><br>So a big thanks to all the developers it is a nice upgrade<br><br>Rich<br><br><br><br>