[mythtv-users] Re: g200 MJPEG decode problem in mplayer and mythTV(but not lavplay)

[Chris Palmer]

the point was that you always have the power to make it work
regardless of distribution (unless you have hardware compatibility
issues, of course).

Definitely go with whatever you're more familiar with.  That's
the best part about linux: you have choices.

I just thought it AbsolutelyWrong(tm) to get into the mindset that 
MythTV works "better" with one distribution of linux over another,
when the real issue is just making sure you have the right tools
and libraries installed.

I'd simply rather be aware of what REALLY makes MythTV work (or any
program I use), so I can solve any problems that come up, instead 
of doing some voodoo magic prayer, hoping that a different linux 
distribution will work for me (at least until either the libraries 
change in that distro or MythTV's dependencies change, forcing you 
start over again if you happen to not have a clue as to why your 
system is "broken").  ;)

That said... I was a very strong "package-only" kind of guy 
until very recently.  I really liked having my system automatically 
updated from packages in my distribution (Debian).  However, I've 
found that doing things ONLY with packages was impractical, because 
some things I wanted were not available in Debian packages, or were
using older versions of what I needed.

I still like to use the packages available, whenever possible, because 
it really makes things easier.  The only thing that kept me sane with
certain issues I ran across, was that I realized that it's not ALWAYS 
possible and that I had to power to make anything happen.  :)

-Chris


Chris and Shannon wrote
> Thats true... pretty much Linux is Linux... but you hit the point when you
> said different distributions can have different versions of libraries.
> Its much easier to hear somebody say "It works using SuSE 8.1 or RedHat
> 9.0", rather than hear somebody say "It requires version 2.2 of the glibc
> library, and version 3.23 of the mysql library, and version 4.0.2 of the
> XFree86 libraries, and version 2.2 of kde, etc etc..."
> 
> Its easier to start with something you know that works, and then you can
> figure out how it works.  Or if I didn't feel like figuring out how it
> worked, I could just keep using that distribution...
> 
> Chris...
> 
> On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Chris Palmer wrote:
> 
> > Chris and Shannon wrote
> > > If you are getting good results I may have to try Gentoo again.  I'm
> > > currently using SuSE 8.1 and the stock kernel which came with it.
> > > Lavrec/layplay work great, but I don't like having 30 minute shows take up
> > > 4GB of space.  Besides, I like the features of mythTV.
> >
> > I don't know why everyone is so concerned about different distros of
> > linux, because linux is linux.  You might have different versions of
> > libraries than someone else, but you always have the power to go find
> > the ones you need and install them.
> >
> > "stock kernel" is a red flag for me.  I'd recommend looking into
> > compiling your own kernel with all the options that you will need
> > and leave out the things you do not.
> >
> > but the real issue sounds like you might have to go find some
> > different versions of the libraries that myth depends on.
> >
> > -Chris