Those that are having troubles are usually more vocal, but I would like to hear from folks who are having success with v.17. I am interested in upgrading my v.16 systems, but they are working so well it makes me nervous.
Started with 0.15, then soon after switched to 0.16 and have been running on a Debian x86 system kept only somewhat up-to-date with Unstable. I've had terrible luck with late ivtv 0.1 releases and all 0.2 releases I've tried (they don't work at all or the frame rate versus audio rate when running less than 720x480 is way off), so I'm still using 0.1.10pre2-ck111 on a 2.6.7 kernel. ALSA is 1.0.7. When the Debian packages for 0.17 became available, I downloaded source and compiled with XvMC, Xrandr (don't really need it - not running any HD content) and OpenGL. Made a backup of the MySQL database. Installed packages and forgot to launch mythtv-setup and went straight for frontend startup. Worked fine except for playback, which was jittery. Recompiled without OpenGL and all was fine. Ran mythtv-setup just to let it do whatever upgrade work it wanted. Graphics card is an nVidia FX5200, CPU a Celeron at 1.4 GHz.
My slave frontend on my desktop machine in another part of the house (PIII-500 and only Xv available), connected with 10/half Ethernet works fine with the stock Debian packages.
Time Stretch is sweet. There's more yet to explore.
I have had one hard lockup, not sure of the cause, backed off setuid root for mythfrontend after that. I had several lockups with 0.16, too.
Thank you Matt Zimmerman for making the Debian packages available. Thank you Isaac and Chris and the rest for MythTV.
0.17 was the least painful so far (given that I've already won a lot of experience getting hardware drivers to cooperate).
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