On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Jeff Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm about to purchase an Acer Aspire Revo for use as a Mythtv Frontend. I'm > confident I can get all the hardware working without too much effort. The > idea is to minimize the setup time as much as possible. > > I'd like to forego my usual choice of archlinux or other rolling distros, > and go for one of the MythTV-specific distros. As far as I can tell, the > three main contenders are: > > * Mythbuntu > * KnoppMyth > * Mythdora > > I don't know as much about KnoppMyth nor Mythdora. I'm inclined to go with > Mythbuntu, because I like debian-based systems well enough. Does anyone > recommend in favor of knoppmyth or mythdora? Anyone recommend against > mythbuntu? > > I'm not looking to build a tinker system here, so that throws any rolling > distros out the hatch. I'd like to be able to run recent MythTV releases > (yes > sometimes from svn if needed) without too much trouble. > > I'm also planning on putting the same distro on a backend machine. The Acer > Revo is a great frontend because of its small size (think Wii), low price, > and > HDMI output, but it can't exactly take any tuner cards. I guess I'm just > curious as to how many times I'll end up needing to drag a monitor over to > my > headless mythbackend server if I opt for one of these distros. I don't > suspect > that the need will arise any more or less depending on these three distros, > but it is a concern "just in case". > > Another question that I haven't answered is how I want to store files for > MythTV's recordings and for MythVideo. I have a couple sata drives I'd like > to > use, but it'd be nice to do something like LVM or ZFS. Should I make sure I > have some parity in there? Should I just do a JBOD? What works best? > > I know you talked about some all-in-one distro around Mythtv, but the Debian package are quite good from debian-multimedia.org and don't require much configuration. All that you would have to do to get a Mythbuntu type interface is have autologin and auto launch of Mythfronten. If you use their testing repo, it gets updated pretty often. I'm a fan of LVM, but Myth's Storage Pool balancing is pretty good too. You can move files between directories now and it will automatically find it. I think I still prefer LVM because I can evacuate a drive without taking anything down. I would do EXT4 as it provides a seemless upgrade to BTRFS. Thats my $.02. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University
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