[mythtv-users] Forum better than mailing list

[Mark Cooper]

reflex wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There are thousands of questions about mythtv. Does it support my
> card, can I have this feature, why does it not work with
> $Mydistro??
> 
> Getting MythTV to work is not that easy. But the biggest problem
> is the lack of proper documentation. It works for me now more or
> less but I had to surf google all the time and distiguish between
> unrelated info and outdated info.
> 
> We could greatly improve the documentation section if you would
> provide a Good Forum(tm) like phpBB and create several sections
> like
<SNIP>

I'm afraid I have to disagree with about their being a lack of 
documentation. There is plenty of documentation on the website ( 
although you may need to dig for it ) and there are a number of very 
good install guides, such as Jarrod's excellent one at 
http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250 that a large 
number of people have followed successfully.

I'm not convinced about the forum's either. The mailing list provides an 
invaluable source of help and is archived at 
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/Users_F11/

However, there are forums available at 
http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-forums.php and the PVR Hardware Database 
at http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-pvrhwdb.php was set-up specifically to 
help with hardware compatibility questions

As for the same old questions being posted over and over again....that 
always happens even though there is a FAQ

HTH

Happy Xmas everyone!!

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Mark Cooper
http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/ - Open Source PVR Hardware Database
http://netmangler.sourceforge.net/ - Network Management with Attitude!