[mythtv-users] MythTV Development Pattern (was: Re: 0.19, XvMC, and Prebuffer pause)

[James Dastrup]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 11:09 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> James Dastrup wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 10:35 -0500, Steve Malenfant wrote:
> >   
> >> I know it seems easier to upgrade than to fix the problem, but some
> >> people have issues with high PCs and 0.19...
> >>  
> >> A 1.6Ghz Duron with MX440 was enough for me to play HD on 0.18...  Now
> >> my setup that was working in 0.18 on my P4 2.4 with FX5200 isn't
> >> working without prebuffering anymore.
> >>  
> >>     
> >
> >
> > Yep, 0.19 brought on a whole new set of problems. That's why I'm still
> > running 0.18.1. Especially the new way LiveTV is handled; although a
> > good idea and going in the right direction, it's buggy. So, in addition
> > to avoiding XvMC, I'm avoiding 0.19 as well, for now.
> >   
> 
> I know I've got no say in the matter, as I haven't contributed a single 
> line of code, but I think it
> would be nice to have a stable and development branch of MythTV. The 
> stability/bug fixes go into
> the old branch, the new features go into the devel branch.
> 
> Lots of large projects use this structure. I think MythTV has become 
> large enough and popular
> enough to need it too.
> 
> I think the problem is that it requires additional administrative 
> overhead. Patches need to be backported
> on a regular basis, etc.
> 

I totally agree. I would love to see some simple and nice features
implemented into a current version, and avoid the more buggy features.
For example, I love how, in 0.19, you don't have to switch tuners before
changing channels to another source.  But at this time, I can't use
that.

But, I 'm not a developer either.