[mythtv-users] More problems than it's worth?

[Michael J. Lynch]

match at ece.utah.edu wrote:
> On 24 Feb 2006 at 11:37, James Minihane wrote:
> 
> 
>>Initially I thought MythTV was THE ANSWER. But reading these lists, it
>>seems that MythTV is more of a headache than a godsend. I'm not about to
>>invest a few thousand in hardware into a problem ridden system.
>>Here's the question...
>>How many of you actually use MythTV to...
>>Time delay live TV, watch DVDs, schedule recordings, listen to music, and
>>view pictures and actually have things work without reboots etc?
>> 
>>J. Minihane
> 
> 
> How interesting...
> 
> 1. If you don't want to try it, then don't. Nobody's forcing you to.
> 
> 2. there are hundreds, maybe thousands of us who have no problems at all with it.
> 
> 3. It IS "beta". You're not paying for it, and it hasn't even reached version 1.0 yet.
> 
> I definitely do not feel that MythTV is "more problems that it's worth" and my FE/BE machine 
> has been running non-stop for months. In fact it runs continually and I take it offline only to do 
> upgrades to hardware, and occasionally upgrades to the software.
> 
> Uhmm... tell me: What software do you think provides a better solution? 
> 
> Marvin
> 

I set up Myth for the very first time about 1 year or so ago.  I set up
backend and frontend machines and it took all of about 1 day to do so.
I have been "just using" it without a single problem ever since.  I used
Jarods guide and everything *just worked* the very first time.  Don't
let all of the messages on the mail list scare you off.


-- 
Michael J. Lynch

What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown