[mythtv-users] mythbuntu vs mythdora

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 13:23:35 UTC 2007


I've had a mythbuntu box up and running in about 40 minutes, from a blank
hard drive.  It took some time to make everything pretty so I wasn't going
to touch it again, but at least it was up and running (though to be fair, it
was a frontend/secondary backend, and it took me a couple of days to get my
first master-backend running the way I wanted :-)

On Dec 6, 2007 7:57 AM, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Fred,
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> As far as upgrading Mythdora they've said there will be an F8 version
> "when it's ready".  No timeline whatsoever.  Well, there's somewhat of
> a timeline - it'll come out when mythtv 0.21 is ready.
>
> So I installed a mythdora box last night.  I have a PVR-500 and an
> NVIDIA card.  It took me about 2 hours post installation to figure out
> all the bizarre behavior and get it to display live tv (and
> record/pause it) and display video via SVIDEO to my Tv.  I'm not 100%
> sure but I think 2 hours is probably on the low to medium end of
> things.  The only thing that isn't working is the Hauppauge remote,
> but that could be because I picked the wrong one in the setup screen.
> (There are 3 or 4 Hauppage black/grey remote settings)  So far I'm
> pretty happy with it although I'm sure I still have some more kinks to
> iron out.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
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