[mythtv-users] MythTV as a DVD player

[David Rees]

On 5/14/07, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/07, David Rees <drees76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/14/07, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I would like to know of people's experience using MythTV as a DVD
> > > player (in addition to using it's many other features).
> >
> > Although most everyone who has chimed in so far seems to love Myth as
> > their DVD player, I must admit that I have had repeated issues with it
> > using 0.20. Here's a list:
>
> Would you mind posting your HW & SW configuration.  Perhaps some will
> look at it and exclaim, "That's your problem, you are trying to run
> Linux on a TRS-80!" (Sorry, I'm showing my age here.)  I, personally,
> would like to know what to avoid.

It's pretty basic. Everything but DVD playback works well, aside from
a what appears to be the occasional ivtv hang.

Sempron 3000+, 1GB memory, 300 GB SATA (Seagate), LITE-ON DVDRW
SHM-165H6S, Nvidia FX5200 AGP, 2x PVR 250s.

Fedora Core 6 using MythTV from atrpms.net, kept fully up to date.

-Dave