Is anyone using 11.3 and Mythtv? Building a PVR and just loaded 11.3 and Mythtv and now I am wondering if I should have used 11.1.
- bill1850 wrote, On 11/27/2010 06:06 PM:
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> Is anyone using 11.3 and Mythtv? Building a PVR and just loaded 11.3
> and Mythtv and now I am wondering if I should have used 11.1.
Not trying to chase you away, but if you want to use MythTV and don’t need the hardware for other purposes, better get a MythTV distro (check the MythTV wiki).
Uwe
Hi, new guy here. But that had interested me as well. I have Opensuse elsewhere (various VMs and laptops), and had wanted to build a DVR. bill, let me know how your build goes, regardless of which distro you choose.
- ctsamurai wrote, On 12/01/2010 12:36 AM:
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> Hi, new guy here. But that had interested me as well. I have Opensuse
> elsewhere (various VMs and laptops), and had wanted to build a DVR.
> bill, let me know how your build goes, regardless of which distro you
> choose.
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>
Actually I always found MythTV a major PITA. This is something Windows does a lot better, both in terms of installation and usability. But that’s just my opinion, of course.
Uwe
One openSUSE 11.3 + MythTV here (i3 3Ghz, 2 Gb RAM, Hauppague NovaTD USB stick), with this guide:
I have 0 problems (SD and HD TV/Movies working well). Packman make a wonderful work packaging MythTV.
I am using mythtv .23 on openSuSE 11.3 and love it. One backend and two frontends.
MythTV can be a bit of work for someone who has never set it up before, but openSuSe setup isn’t much different then even the so called pre-made distros.
Setting it up to use directories in /home/user/ is about the only major change I make to the default setup.
I just don’t want all those recordings, music, ripped DVD’s and other data on my root partition.
Personally I think it is a bad choice that the default sticks everything on the root partition and that is why I make the change. I just don’t want my system partition to be loaded up with all that data. 
For people who are not familiar with MythTV and let the defaults alone it wouldn’t take long on a system using a seperate root and home partition to fill the root partition, and crash the machine.
So I’ve got a bit of a debate brewing here. I guess in your opinions (Bruce and buckesfeld) what were the hurdles or difficulties with a “mythSuSE” build?
If its a matter of specifying a different directory or partition, that’s a pretty simple tweak in setup.
Ive got 11.3 + mythtv 024 (frontend only) running on an Atom/ION platform with 0 issues.
dvlara is right, Packman does a great job with mythtv.
I plan on moving the backend to opensuse sometime in the not too distant future, Ill let you know how it goes