[mythtv-users] Latest Build/Platform Advice

[Eppo Eppleston]

i currently have a pvr-250 and a hd-pvr on a box running ubuntu 8.04. for
some reason i couldnt get my NAT working using 8.10, so i had to stick with
8.04. the HD-PVR driver wouldnt compile on the current kernel in the 8.04
repository, so i had to upgrade to the intrepid release using the PPA kernel
repository. i've just got it all working recently, still working out the
bugs.

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Bryce Ostenson <bostenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been working with MythTv for the past year and a half or so.  What
> started out as a basic, inexpensive PVR for SD has turned into multi-tuner
> HD and a few other things...  In my latest build, I ran into a fair number
> of issues.  I'm about to take another run at it and wanted to see if I could
> pick up any pointers from people that have a similar system, so as to avoid
> compatibility problems.  Of course, thanks in advance...
>
> I have read a lot on the list about the various components/questions below
> but it seems my problems tend to be in the overall build.  As I've went from
> a very basic build to a more complex one, I seem to have more issues between
> individual components.  Moving to the development trunk, I'm more cautious.
>
> For the OS, I'd like to use Ubuntu 8.x and believe I'll need to with a
> mythtv from the development trunk.  My capture devices include: HD-Homerun,
> HD-PVR, and PVR-150.  I use a MCE-USB IR receiver that seems to work well.
> The video card is a passively-cooled nVidia 8500GT with HDMI.  Sound is off
> the motherboard on S/PDIF.  Problems I had in my latest build (8.10 and
> mythtv .21) were:
> * Menus were slow and programs in HD off the HD-Homerun had a little bit of
> a flicker.  I suspected video driver.  Perhaps I should try vpdau?  Though
> my cpu (E7200 c2d @ stock 2.53Ghz though I plan to OC to ~3Ghz) should be
> able to handle the decoding (and did when I was on 7.04).
> * I haven't built with the HD-PVR before but am looking forward to it.
> * Sound and IR receiver are always a bit of a pain but I think I've got
> that process down now.
> * mythbackend would periodically crash.
> * My HD-Homerun would periodically crash.
> * My only independant known problem is that my internet connection has been
> crashing periodically though this is upstream from the switch all the LAN
> devices are plugged in to.  Perhaps this was interfering with the stability
> of mythbackend and HD-Homerun though I don't see the relationship.  That
> should now be fixed.
>
> Should I go with 8.10 or fall back to 8.04?  I didn't have the struggles to
> get my video card going on 8.04 that I did on 8.04.  Of course, on 8.04 I
> had a problem getting my xbox 360 controller going for the game emulation.
> Any other special considerations relative to the OS if I'm building from the
> development trunk for HD-PVR support?
>
> I had struggled in the past to get my xBox 360 USB controller working for
> use with mythGame.  This seems to be resolved per:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/237170
>
> Since my system isn't working as well as I'd like and I've messed with it
> quite a bit, I'm inclined to start from a fresh Ubuntu install.  But I'm not
> totally clear on how to coordinate the port of the database.  Should I try
> to build a fresh system (Ubuntu 8.x + .21) and load the database and then
> upgrade?  Or should I just install the OS, mythtv from trunk with a fresh
> database, then load my backed up database and perform a schema upgrade?
>
> I'm also toying with the idea of installing xbmc and/or eebox and
> customizing the mythTV interface to allow launching of those.  I believe I
> just saw some posts about that for eeBox.
>
> Other items I'd like to layer on this system if I can get it stable:
> * OpenVPN.
> * VMWare Server 2.
> * Perhaps automatic sleep/standby (but this doesn't make a lot of sense if
> I decide i want mythWeb and/or VPN available to it).
>
> Thanks much,
> Bryce
>
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