[mythtv-users] Migrating from Ubuntu to Fedora as the base for MythTV installation (Was "Re: Which 3rd party repository should I use for Fedora 9?")

Carlos Javier Borroto carlos.borroto at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 14:35:42 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mario Limonciello
<mario.mailing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carlos Javier Borroto wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Brad DerManouelian
>> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well I have never use a Red Hat system for a long period of time in my
>> 8 years using Linux, only SuSE, Debian and Ubuntu, the last 2 mainly,
>> so I'm feeling that I should test by myself the most commercial
>> successful Linux distro and with Fedora also one of the most popular.
>> That the main reason, then Hardy I really think it wasn't a good
>> release, I'm not talking about Mythbuntu, which I think it was really
>> easy to setup, I use Linux in all the desktop computer I use and I
>> choose Ubuntu cause it was easy to use for this task, but with Hardy,
>> sound is really a mess, I know Pulseaudio is something very useful,
>> but the Hardy implementation is not, by the way MythTV doesn't seems
>> to support it, then comes the performance, which could be something
>> very subjective, but I think is not near what should be, but who knows
>> if I'm right, I should test something else. I could be returning to
>> Mythbuntu very soon.
>>
> If i'm not mistaken, doesn't Fedora 9 also use pulseaudio?  Also, remember that
> a pure Mythbuntu box doesn't install pulseaudio because of its deficiencies in
> usage and friendliness to mythtv.  If you are installing mythbuntu addons to
> ubuntu, you will want to consider installing the ALSA plugin for pulseaudio.  At
> that point, you can put in ALSA:pulse into myth and have it work for the most part.
>>

Well, first I use a pure Mythbuntu backend, which I have to say I'm
100% pleased, I even had to "apt-get build-dep mythtv", "apt-get
source mythtv", patch and "debuild" for some patches I needed for my
configuration and every things was really easy. But then I have
several frontend where the main use of this machines are desktop
computers with a normal Hardy installation and here is where I have
several problemas. My actual plan is try to keep Mythbuntu on the
backend, but I don't know if protocol incompatibility problems will
arise.

Rigth now my problems on the frontend with the audio are getting
really bad, last night after a while of playback, the sound start to
distortion, my girlfriend have a good time making fun of "my" tv
system, where I past to much time playing with, I tested a normal
Totem playback and I got the same results, so is not MythTV fault .
Then yes Fedora also use Pulseaudio, but I had read that the upstream
dev use Fedora(flame war over Gnome Planet) and things seems better
there right now.

But again, in the end the main reason is my desire of testing a
popular distro which I had never used, I even realize now that I
shouldn't mentioned Mythbuntu on my initial post, cause it wasn't
relevant, my intention was to gave a background of my actual
implementation, maybe I should said "I'm new to Fedora.....".

BTW thanks for the heads up on the pulse plugin, I'll test it.

regards,
-- 
Carlos Javier
Habana, CUBA


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