Michael Halcrow wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 01:00:24PM -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote:
Are you using Gentoo? Gentoo smooths out the rough edges in MythTV,
because the types of tweaks I've had to do don't lend themselves
well to a binary distribution.
Would it figure out on its own that I have both a pcHDTV-3000 card and
a PVR-250, and then automatically use the more compatible tveeprom
modules that ships with the kernel instead of the one that ships with
the IVTV driver, otherwise it will default to the better tested (for
the PVR-250) tveeprom shipping with the IVTV driver? Forgive me for
being a bit skeptical on that point. If Gentoo does get that right by
default, then I will be impressed.
No, but once you've selected the right USE flags and stability options,
choices like this persist across upgrades, and that's the real time
saver. I had a similar problem, and in this case, I only needed to
choose the development version of IVTV rather than the stable version,
by putting "media-tv/ivtv" in /etc/portage/package.keywords. The
development version builds only the ivtv module, while the stable
version builds many modules that conflict with 2.6.15.
Honestly, if I were to want to rebuild my machine to use 64-bit
binaries, I would be very tempted to make the switch to Gentoo. But as
long as I'm in 32-bit land, it's going to take a lot to get me away
from Debian w/ Marillat.
I'm not going to say you should switch to Gentoo. Use what's
comfortable. Personally, I find Gentoo quite comfortable.
Incidentally, I recently switched my desktop to 64 bit after running 32
bit for a year. Everything is as stable as before AFAICT. Only one
slight problem: I have to run a 32 bit browser to visit
homestarrunner.com and video.google.com, because the Flash plugin is
only available in 32 bit. I'm waiting for Gnash.
Yup; that's exactly how I have mine set up. Of course, with a few
hundred gigs of disk space to spare, it would take more hours of
television to fill up my partition than time I have outside of work
and grad school to watch anything.
The time stretch playback feature helps.
And MythTV can be configured to stop recording once the free space in
a partition reaches a certain low-point.
True. I haven't tried that option.
Shane
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