[mythtv-users] MythTV Version Recommendation

[Jesse Guardiani]

Khanh Tran wrote:
> On 3/3/06, LP Tilly <mail.list.lawrence at gmail.com> wrote:
> You'll have a better Live TV experience with 0.18.  Read through the
> mailing list archives for the quirks of Live TV under MythTV 0.19. 
> Since you won't be watching Live TV, this isn't an issue for you.
>
> Don't be afraid to move to SuSE 10.  You'll find compiling and
> available RPMs are more up-to-date and less troublesome under SuSE 10.
>  You'll especially find this around the software that MythTV holds
> together like lirc, ivtv and the like...
>   

Yeah, livetv is jacked up for a lot of people in 0.19. My wife uses it a 
lot and has been
expressing her frustration frequently of late. It's not pleasant, but I 
endure in the name of
progress.

I'm running the 0.19 SVN branch from just a few days ago on Gentoo 
(custom ebuild).
LiveTV issues I still experience:
1.) Pause, channel change operations seem to mess up the video. When it 
gets messed up,
    it looks like it only displays the third or fourth frame. Very 
choppy playback.
    This issue is new, I think. I'm not sure if it started when I 
upgraded last, or if it started when
    I stopped using XvMC though. It's even more annoying than the 
end-of-show issue below.
2.) The end-of-show crash/hang/black screen issue is less frequent, but 
still happens from time to time.
3.) LiveTV takes a really really long time to start up sometimes. 10-12 
seconds.

Anyone know if any of these issues have been fixed recently? :)

Issues fixed completely by the version of SVN I'm running (I think):
1.) Black screen when running LiveTV the first time.

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net