<br><br>On Friday, March 9, 2012, jedi <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:40:51PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:<br>>> I've been using Vista Media Center as a stop-gap, and am now trying to<br>
>> switch to MythTV on Linux. Here are some of the things that struck me.<br>>><br>>> Getting it sort of set up was difficult, partly because I was trying to<br>>> do it in a chroot. My system is Debian Lenny; the chroot is debian<br>
>> testing, getting packages from Marillat's repository.<br>>><br>>> The system seems underdocumented. In particular, I remain somewhat<br>>> confused about the different components involved in the setup and their<br>
>> relation to each other. There were more components than I expected:<br>>> capture cards, video sources and inputs all sounded as if they were the<br>>> same thing. The name "video source" seems misleading; this seems to be<br>
>> the source of programming information rather than video.<br>>><br>>> I have an HDHomeRun tuner (newer version, HDHR3-US) with US over-the-air<br>>> signals. The ability of the Myth to handle more than one tunerwas very<br>
>> important to me. However, after setting everything up (including<br>>> setting # of tuners to 2 in the HDHR setup) I discovered I could not<br>>> record 2 shows at once. Googling around turned up that I needed to<br>
>> create a separate entry for each tuner, as well as the info that I could<br>><br>> Given that this is a network device and those tuners could be used<br>> quite litterally by anything (including another MCE box sitting on the<br>
> same network), setting up each tuner separately makes a certain amount<br>> of sense.<br>><br>> [deletia]<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>><br>I certainly agree with the lack of documentation part. Makes it pretty challenging sometimes. Though I hate writing documentation too. <br>
Though with that, you end up searching the mailing list and get <br>Mixed info. <br>Any mature software does require documentation. It's missing at this point. Likely mythtvs biggest failing. IMHO <br>