On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:20:13AM -0800, Thomas M. Pluth wrote: > I'll second that. HDTV works well on my setup.
Sure, and I have HDTV working too. He was a bit overbearing saying it doesn't work. But it is true that it took a lot of work to get it going, and I know that's true for a lot of people, and I would be curious to know if there was even a sizeable group who didn't encounter some level of snags to fix in making and HDTV box. What fraction of people just said "apt-get mythtv-suite" then did some basic config and had an HD box ready to go? It's often nothing to do with Myth, but instead the immaturity of the various drivers for hardware -- video cards and xvideo, tuner cards, sound drivers for multichannel sound. People have not been doing this level of high-res full motion video under linux for very long yet, and as a result there are more problems, more kinks, fewer people who have encountered your particular problem and solved it and posted the fix or work-around. Of course, if you build myth only for yourself, the problems other people have in getting it going are not relevant. If you want the system to gain more users (and developers) for either philanthropic or selfish reasons, then you have to listen to the people who announce they are walking away in frustration. If they are reasonably skilled linux users, and they walk away in frustration, it's not their fault, much as any particular error made can be seen to be their fault.
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