[mythtv-users] Most reliable path to a working MythTV system?

[Albert Santoni]

stan wrote:

>I've tried to get a working MythTV system 2 diffeent ways.
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>1. Using the KnoppMyth distribution.
>2. Building a Debian "unstable" system.
>
>1 fails because teh version of XMLTV installed cannot aquire north american
>TV lsiting (and when I upgrade it from Debian mythbacked crashes), and I
>can't change chanels, and audio does not work.
>
>2 failed becuase I jsut never got MythTV to run at all :-(
>
>The system involved has a simple WinTV card in it, and it works great with
>xmltv when I install plain old Debian.
>
>So, since I desperatley need something to replace my broken Tivo. What
>aproach can people recomend as being the mos straightfoward path to a
>working system?
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Well, I would recommend Mandrake 9.2 and possibly using the RPMs 
floating around for that. It's really not hard to build it manually 
either... I didn't have any problems downloading and compiling (or 
installing off the Mandrake CDs/DVD) any of the dependencies.