[HLUG] MythBuntu & MythT

Wed Sep 3 09:04:11 UTC 2008

I have found Wine pretty easy to use these days. The dev team have done a
lot of work on user friendlyness.

I tried to set up myth tv last year on Ubuntu and got very confused with it.
But then I didn't really know what I was doing, and just wanted a simple
program to run my wii through my capture card and play it through my
monitor, In the end I used TVTime. Its loads simpler, but no where near as
full featured)

Mo

I tried to set up

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Christopher Evans <reactiv8 at hotmail.co.uk>wrote:

> Thanks for the tip about MythBuntu, I have heard others speak well of it,
> and will try it if I don't get anywhere with MythTV - I'm certain both are
> dead simple, but I have to be in a suitable frame of mind for these things
> ... & OCRopus & Wine & VirtualBox etc.
>
> Chris.
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> > 2008/9/1 Morven Lewis-Everley <m.lewis.everley at googlemail.com>:
> > > Apparently Mythbuntu is a very good MythTV based distro.
> > >
> > > A recent Episode of Systm talks about setting up MythBuntu:
> > >
> > > http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt/
> > >
> > > Looks pretty simple.
> > >
> > > Mo
> >
> > To be honest i've looked at the various myth distributions available
> > in the past and have never really been tempted. While they can be
> > useful to get a system up and running quickly they don't really
> > provide the learning experience that rolling your own provides which,
> > imo, is the best way to get to know how to run and modify your system.
> >
> > In the end i got my system all sorted on saturday morning (a 6am wake
> > up call from my son made sure i got started early :) I've got a couple
> > of minor issues which i'll be getting on to the mythtv mailing list
> > for but overall things are working even better than my previous
> > install. I've dropped the machine's load average by around 300% boot
> > up is a lot quicker, a quick modification to fstab has seen disk
> > fragmentation drop right down below 1% (previously it used to run at a
> > near constant 75% fragmentation with defrags being run nightly) and in
> > general myth feels a lot zippier when jumping through the menus.
> >
> > I can appreciate that, for some, a pre built distribution may seem
> > more attractive but my recommendation is, if you've got the time and
> > the patience, jump in do the lot yourself, it's well worth it in the
> > end.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Matt
> >
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