MythTV install workshop?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 24 20:10:29 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:55:19PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> Someone I know (well.. we know) someone who doesn't
> have cable who is looking to set-up a MythTV box,
> basically to be a pretty front end for TV shows he has
> downloaded off the net. Now, due to legalities I can
> NOT recommend that people do that sort of thing, but
> for some folks MythTV is interesting even if they
> don't have cable/satellite TV.

Hmm, not sure how good their front end is as just a video player.  I
haven't used it much for playing anything other than shows I recorded.

> Well, MythTV on some conventioal distros. (such as
> Debian) can be a ROYAL pain in the tail to set-up.
> MOST of the big pain issues disappear with KnoppMyth.

MythTV on debian was a breeze.

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