Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 14, 2006 01:41 AM
I experimented with several options to get a MythTV setup at home.
KnoppMyth may be great and easy with the right hardware, but not everything would work correctly with some of the odd components of the old machine I had scrounged together.
I tried Ubuntu (which I think was Hoary at the time, but may have been the preceding version), but I had problems with it also, including some LIRC issues.
What ended up being easiest for me with this hardware was a Slackware base and then following the documentation from MythTV (which means compiling everything yourself -- I use checkinstall to make packages). Of course, now the power supply is burned out on that computer, after I had been distracted from the rest of the project, but I have just started considering reviving it to get back to setting up my media the way I wanted.
So if you can use a fairly automatic way to get MythTV working, it's probably not a bad idea, and should be possible with the right hardware. If, however, you are determined to make it work without the ideal hardware setup and you run into a snag, or you want total control over the setup, then you might want to consider using Slackware or possibly Gentoo or Arch.
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Re:Myth TV - not an easy install
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 14, 2006 01:41 AMKnoppMyth may be great and easy with the right hardware, but not everything would work correctly with some of the odd components of the old machine I had scrounged together.
I tried Ubuntu (which I think was Hoary at the time, but may have been the preceding version), but I had problems with it also, including some LIRC issues.
What ended up being easiest for me with this hardware was a Slackware base and then following the documentation from MythTV (which means compiling everything yourself -- I use checkinstall to make packages). Of course, now the power supply is burned out on that computer, after I had been distracted from the rest of the project, but I have just started considering reviving it to get back to setting up my media the way I wanted.
So if you can use a fairly automatic way to get MythTV working, it's probably not a bad idea, and should be possible with the right hardware. If, however, you are determined to make it work without the ideal hardware setup and you run into a snag, or you want total control over the setup, then you might want to consider using Slackware or possibly Gentoo or Arch.
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