<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@xunil.at" target="_blank">lists@xunil.at</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Am <a href="tel:02.10.2013%2016" value="+64210201316">02.10.2013 16</a>:44, schrieb Rich Freeman:<br>
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> I might see if I can write things up in a blog entry (if so it will go<br>
> on planet gentoo). The biggest pain wasn't getting PXE+NFS working<br>
> (no harder than setting up minimyth really), but fully building the<br>
> front-end from scratch (lirc, X11 config for HDMI out, etc). I recall<br>
> also having artifact problems with decoding video and such - I think<br>
> mythtv 0.26 fixed that for me (newer version of bundled ffmpeg -<br>
> videos would play fine with Gentoo's ffmpeg or mplayer, but not with<br>
> the mythtv-bundled mythffmpeg).<br>
><br>
> Oh, one thing I did do is just test the PXE+NFS from a diskless VM<br>
> before moving to the actual front-end, so that I could take my time<br>
> without messing up the TV. That doesn't help with some of the X11 and<br>
> lirc work, but you can get pretty far on a VM.<br>
><br>
> If anything working with NFS is much simpler - the kernel is the only<br>
> thing that really needs special handling (and that is just a matter of<br>
> replacing a file on the tftp server) - otherwise it is just like<br>
> updating a chroot.<br>
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</div>Thanks for your infos ... for now I can live with 0.26 as I will be away<br>
for the next days.<br>
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I consider to "simply" install something on a hdd for the frontend ...<br>
but AFAI see even mythbuntu is still on 0.25 (!?).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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) <br>
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