[mythtv-users] Where to find Myth Setup Information?

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 01/12/2011 12:48 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/12/2011 12:08, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>>
>> In Windows, you get a pretty pop-up that says "Hey, we've got some 
>> hardware here that I don't know what to do with. What now?" and you 
>> go to a vendor website, download an installer, and bing bang boom, 
>> you're off and running.  Linux...not so much
>>
>> It is this, I find, that stymies many a MythTV installation and, yes, 
>> could be resolved by some "hardware supported" mechanism on the wiki, 
>> etc. but truth be told, it is a fast moving target and hard to 
>> document well.
>
> There used to be a hundred or more pages on the wiki with varying 
> levels of information on different cards.  The issue is that aside 
> from a few devices, we don't support hardware directly, so it's not 
> our duty to maintain documentation on the state of the drivers.

Not to mention that nearly all (or just plain all?) of those pages were 
out of date and/or contained incorrect information.  It was probably 
worse to have those pages than not to since no one was keeping up with 
the development of the drivers and actively maintaining each page.

>   All of those pages have been deleted in favor of three lists, 
> containing the different types of cards, and links to their relevant 
> page on the LinuxTV wiki.
>
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/Analog_Framebuffer_Cards
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/Analog_Hardware_Encoder_Cards
> http://mythtv.org/wiki/Digital_Tuner_Cards
>
> It would be great if the LinuxTV site were kept up to date and 
> maintained, but there are literally thousands of cards they support, 
> with regressions that pop up with each new kernel release every couple 
> months.  Add on the fact that some families of cards like the old bttv 
> aren't really worth maintaining, but still manage to be in heavy use.  
> It's simply an unachievable goal.

Exactly.

Mike