Mythdora 4.0
This is the best distro for myth we have tested so far.
It uses the latest myth version 0.20 on Fedora Core 6.
It auto detected the Hauppauge WinTW Nova-T DVB and everything was installed already such as myth packages for, video, pictures, music, game, internet streaming, phone, etc.
It didn't properly work with the graphics card, sometimes it's all discoloured when running mythfrontend. I still cannot work it out.
We could watch tv, record tv, what the video collection, listen to music, view images, burn dvd's straight out of the box.
EPG
We've tried to configure the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and we have it half working. We are using shepard as it's a perl script which auto updates itself and gets all the EPG information for free. We have SBS News, Seven and all the HDTV channels working.
We are very close to getting this working and it really helps with recording anything you want so you can watch it later.
Video, Music, Gallery
When we linked to the shared drives we had to use this type of command:
//10.1.1.2/pictures /mnt/pictures cifs defaults,guest 0 0
For the video we have changed to xine (default) to mplayer instead because it's so much better.
Games
Used ZSNES, this worked quite well but fullscreen is a bit hard to get working correctly.
Joysticks were detected on /dev/js0, tested this with:
$ snes9x -joydevl /dev/input/js0
Remote control
I got a new remote control receiver called a ma-620, and nearly got it working the other night at the mlug meeting.
It uses the latest myth version 0.20 on Fedora Core 6.
It auto detected the Hauppauge WinTW Nova-T DVB and everything was installed already such as myth packages for, video, pictures, music, game, internet streaming, phone, etc.
It didn't properly work with the graphics card, sometimes it's all discoloured when running mythfrontend. I still cannot work it out.
We could watch tv, record tv, what the video collection, listen to music, view images, burn dvd's straight out of the box.
EPG
We've tried to configure the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) and we have it half working. We are using shepard as it's a perl script which auto updates itself and gets all the EPG information for free. We have SBS News, Seven and all the HDTV channels working.
We are very close to getting this working and it really helps with recording anything you want so you can watch it later.
Video, Music, Gallery
When we linked to the shared drives we had to use this type of command:
//10.1.1.2/pictures /mnt/pictures cifs defaults,guest 0 0
For the video we have changed to xine (default) to mplayer instead because it's so much better.
Games
Used ZSNES, this worked quite well but fullscreen is a bit hard to get working correctly.
Joysticks were detected on /dev/js0, tested this with:
$ snes9x -joydevl /dev/input/js0
Remote control
I got a new remote control receiver called a ma-620, and nearly got it working the other night at the mlug meeting.
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