[mythtv-users] mythbuntu vs mythdora

Fred Firestine ffluvssg1 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 20:19:44 UTC 2007


On Dec 6, 2007 8:23 AM, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
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> 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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Thanks guys. All very useful information! I'll back up all relevant
files plus the database when the time comes, and then I'll be ready to
give these packages a try.


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