On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Brent & Megan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: >> >> For those who were still interested in mythtv I see that my favoured >> distro has finally released a new version with the 0.21 release of >> MythTv. This is Good News (tm) IMHO. >> >> http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html >> >> I usually prefer the torrent, or people can bludge a copy from me in >> 16 hrs 28 mins according to my bt client. (But its likely to speed up >> overnight and be here by morning). >> >> > > Was it knoppmyth that you had running on the demo PC for CLUG? > > What makes this distribution better than the others? (Or is this like > asking what makes a Linux distribution better than the others, with long > debates?) > > Brent >
I had mythbuntu running at the demo because I wanted version 0.21 of mythtv. and knoppmyth did not support it until this present R5.5 release. yes it is a potential flamewar discussion. I like knoppmyth because it acts like a real "appliance" - not an addon to a desktop distro. (You don't need a desktop on a myth box). It is well tested and thought out. It has good upgrade tools. I have had a few problems with mythbuntu. A couple of apps didn't work because permissions were wrong or the package did not make various directories. It just doesn't seem as well thought out and complete as knoppmyth. One example. knoppmyth people have added menu options to turn the machine off or reboot. So you can access that with your remote. To reboot my mythbuntu machine I have to use the keyboard or ssh in. Second example, the default mythbuntu partitioning puts everything in / in one partition. The data (which should ideally be in a different partition) ends up buried in /var/lib/mythtv. Knoppmyth automatically creates a separate partition, mounts it as /myth and puts all your data there. Third example: the flash streaming part of mythweb requires ffmpeg and libavcodec with mp3 encoding compiled in (via libmp3lame). The ffmpeg supplied with mythbuntu doesn't have it, so you have to go to the medibuntu repos to get their versions. Now mythbuntu has an option in its very nice control panel to enable the medibuntu repos and to supposedly install ffmpeg from there, but it didn't work. I had to run apt-get again from the command line. I guess I got used to knoppmyth and when I switched to try mythbuntu I haven't overly enjoyed it. But now with 300G of tv data in my one partition I have a problem Houston!
