[mythtv-users] Mythtv 0.26 on Gentoo

[Robin Gilks]

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Robert Longbottom
> <rongblor at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There is an ebuild available on the gentoo bug tracker, so it must be on
>> its
>> way:
>>
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437140
>>
>> You could take that out for a spin and let us know how you get on, then
>> I
>> might give it a try as well if it isn't in portage by then ;-)
>
> I've been running that since posting it, and so far it works
> reasonably well.  I get some video quality issues with transcoding,
> but the previous build I was running was 0.24.something so I can't
> vouch for whether it is a configuration issue on my end.  I can say
> that it works WAY better on my ION front-end, likely due to a more
> recent internal ffmpeg library.
>
> I could push that into portage, but I'd prefer to let Cardoe continue
> to maintain it as he has been hosting the backports out of his
> personal web space.  It doesn't make sense to have it bounce back and
> forth depending on who got to it last.  If I were going to publish
> backports I'd probably just host a fork on github and just point the
> ebuild to that.

Is there a mythplugins ebuild lurking as well? I saw no reference to it on
the bug tracker...


-- 
Robin Gilks