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| Newer page: | version 50 | Last edited on Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:27:59 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 49 | Last edited on Saturday, December 2, 2006 9:04:49 pm | by ChrisBrock | Revert |
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
!! Selecting a distribution
-If you want
a nice
simple guide to follow, and you don't mind downloading lots, follow the
[Fedora Myth(TV)ology
|http
://wilsonet
.com/mythtv
/] guide. I see little point in replicating this content, so instead I'd recommend more or less following this guide if you want to use [FedoraCore]. Beware that you will be using
the ATrpms source, which provides updates for functionality for many packages, not just security updates, so you will probably be doing 100Mb of "destabilising" update traffic a month
.
+MythTV is
a very
simple install in Ubuntu Feisty.
[Complete instructions
|https
://help.ubuntu
.com/community
/MythTV_Feisty
] are on
the Ubuntu wiki
.
-I'm using [
Ubuntu] now. If you prefer
the Debian system, it's worth changing.
-
-Here is a recent Ubuntu howto with how to get mythtv running in an ubutu system, looks very good
and thorough
-s91928265
.onlinehome.us/hfamily
/mythtv/myth_ubuntu
.html
+Prior to
Ubuntu,
the best guide
and distribution was [Fedora Myth(TV)ology|
http://wilsonet
.com
/mythtv/] guide. The downside with this was using the ATrpms source, which provides updates for functionality for many packages, not just security updates, so you were often doing 100Mb of "destabilising" update traffic a month
.
!! Live TV hangs when playing on a TV
This is probably an ivtv DMA issue - see IvTvNotes for a description of a fix
@@ -56,9 +53,9 @@
Thanks to Michael T. Dean on the mythtv-users mailing list for nailing this one!
!! Frontend doesn't run full screen under GNOME (Fedora Core 2)
-FC2 shipped with a broken [Qt]. The 3.3.3 update fixes this problem. Another great suggestion, and indeed the one I've selected myself, is 'use BlackBox on your MythTv frontend; you don't need [GNOME] running!'
+FC2 shipped with a broken [Qt]. The 3.3.3 update fixes this problem. Another great suggestion, and indeed the one I've selected myself, is 'use BlackBox on your MythTv frontend; you don't need [GNOME] running!' Or, upgrade from your 3 year old software.
!! [Hamilton], NewZealand channels
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