[mythtv-users] Does MythTV support HD video and media libraries

[Igor Chudov]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 04:16:43PM -0500, jarpublic at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > For ease of setup, use Mythbuntu. It's a streamlined Ubuntu install that
> > has
> > > some nice tools to configure the system for you. So you don't have to
> > worry
> > > about the database etc.. Works great here. You still use the standard
> > Ubuntu
> > > repositories, and it's a real Ubuntu install, just cut back for you so
> > you
> > > don't have to do it manually.
> >
> > I tried those things, and did not like it, I prefer everything to be
> > "Ubuntu" that is customized with my scripts.
> >
> >
> I use my mythtv backend for multiple other things. So I usually just install
> Ubuntu and get it setup how I like. Then I install the mythbuntu packages
> from the ubuntu repositories to get a nice clean mythtv setup with minimal
> effort on my part. You may want to look at the mythbuntu-desktop and
> mythbuntu-control-centre packages. The first will install everything you
> need for a mythtv system. Including a lightweight xfce session if you want
> to use it that way. The second will give you the mythbuntu control center
> app which gives you a nice gui for most of the setup things you would want
> to deal with. With this setup, I usually just let the system login to the
> mythbuntu xfce session and run mythtv that way. If I need to do other stuff,
> I will just log into my default ubuntu gnome session. It works great.

I think that I would prefer to run MythTV from inside a regular GNOME
session (possibly at session start).

i