MythTV on Fedora

[andrew matthews]

The best resource for fedora users: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php

I'm running a backend and two frontends using fedora core 3

On 7/13/05, Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 09:09 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> > Anyone tried MythTV on Fedora? Wanna share your
> > experience? How does it compare to Tivo?
> 
> I just installed it on FC4 last Friday to record the F1 race last Sunday
> because I was working all weekend. Works quite well, I tried a bit of
> live TV watching also, you can pause/rewind live TV, that's kinda cool
> but the main thing I wanted it for was to act as a VCR. I don't know how
> it compares to Tivo because we don't have Tivo in Canada.
> 
> I compiled it myself because the only place that has RPMs of it (that I
> know of) is atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net> and I had some trouble 
> installing them. I took a
> few notes when I did my install so I know what I'll need to do next time
> I install it.
> 
> Here's a list of the packages I needed to install over the default
> Workstation install packages:
> 
> qt-devel
> perl-DBI
> mysql
> perl-DBD-MySQL
> mysql-server
> qt-MySQL
> lame
> lame-devel
> 
> lame and lame-devel comes from atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net>
> 
> Also there's a patch you need to use to compile MythTV 0.18.1 in FC4
> with gcc4. I took the patch in the atrpms.net <http://atrpms.net> SRPMS 
> package for MythTV
> and it compiled fine with it. It's the cvsfixes patch. Email me offlist
> if you want and I'll send you the patch.
> 
> Other than that just follow the steps in the MythTV installation guide
> and you shouldn't have any problems.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
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> Jean-Rene Cormier <jrc at jrcormier.com>
> 
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