[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Freevo

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Apr 11 13:56:02 EDT 2003


On Friday 11 April 2003 11:39 am, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> I appreciate that.  I'm a developer myself, and I know how to file bug
> reports, and believe me, I plan to be filing reports like crazy over the
> next few days as I use MythTV more.  Unfortunately MythTV hangs as much
> as it crashes (or more), and those problems are a lot harder to report
> and fix.

A hang is (usually) almost as easy as a segfault to report.  You just run it 
in gdb and ctl-c it once it's stopped.  The only real difference is that it 
helps to get a backtrace of all the current threads instead of just the 
'active' one.

Really, if you're having massive stability problems, chances are it's not 
happening to me, and I would appreciate decent bug reports.

> My original email wasn't a slam on MythTV or its stability.  I'm going
> to do my duty as a OSS user and try to improve its quality as much as I
> can through testing and bug reporting.  I was just curious how the
> MythTV community felt about its competitors and its strengths/weaknesses
> compared to them.

There are competitors? =)

Isaac


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