Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-21 Thread David
Mike wrote: I've just upgraded my frontends to use the marillat versions. (I exclusivley use testing/etch not unstable/sid BTW) For others reading this thread: they are complete packages and work well. Given that most debian users will have marillat for mplayer and xine; and given that it just

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-20 Thread drbob
drbob wrote: Thanks for all the responses. I think I'll try compiling from source. I don't want to disturb the sarge setup more than necessary. Well I've just compiled myth on my backend from the 0.18.1 tarball. After a bit of basic setup (lvm creation on my 200gb drive for video, custom

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-20 Thread Mike
David wrote: drbob wrote: Thanks for all the responses. I think I'll try compiling from source. I don't want to disturb the sarge setup more than necessary. Does the marrilat repository only contain packages not included in the official repository or a re there some backports of mere

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-17 Thread Nick Craig-Wood
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:52:50PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: Christian Marillat's depositry has MythTV now thanks to the work of some devs, http://debian.video.free.fr/ From a debian machine # apt-cache policy mythtv mythtv: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.18.1-7 Version table:

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-17 Thread Mark Hetherington
I recently gave up on it and just got the svn. Once you have the dev packages it needs installed its a snap to compile. But it seems that deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main is valid, at least it lists packages for me in synaptic, apparently newer than the csh.dijkstra.edu packages

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-17 Thread drbob
Thanks for all the responses. I think I'll try compiling from source. I don't want to disturb the sarge setup more than necessary. Does the marrilat repository only contain packages not included in the official repository or a re there some backports of mere recent versions as well? I like to

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-17 Thread David
drbob wrote: Thanks for all the responses. I think I'll try compiling from source. I don't want to disturb the sarge setup more than necessary. Does the marrilat repository only contain packages not included in the official repository or a re there some backports of mere recent versions as

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-17 Thread Thomas Kuster
I run it on debian sarge with my own compile of everything that isn't in the normal repos. (like ffmpeg and all of that) One thing that I ended up doing was building my own 2.6.14 kernel package for the HD-3000 drivers rather than trying to build them into the old kernel. (which is also

[mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-16 Thread drbob
I'd really like to try out mythtv. However my only option would be to run the backend on my debian server (the frontend would be on a dual boot windows/linux machine). The problem is my server runs debian stable. I could countenance an upgrade to etch but not to sid (I can't trust sid with my

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-16 Thread Philip Nelson
drbob wrote: It's beginning to look depressingly like I would need to switch distributions to use mythtv :-( Any suggestions on what to do welcome. Compile from source. Everything goes to /usr/local so it's fine. All dependencies can be found in the normal debian stable repository (you probably

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Adeff
On Monday 16 January 2006 21:21, drbob wrote: I'd really like to try out mythtv. However my only option would be to run the backend on my debian server (the frontend would be on a dual boot windows/linux machine). The problem is my server runs debian stable. I could countenance an upgrade to

Re: [mythtv-users] Mythtv on Debian - is it dead?

2006-01-16 Thread Mike
drbob wrote: I'd really like to try out mythtv. However my only option would be to run the backend on my debian server (the frontend would be on a dual boot windows/linux machine). The problem is my server runs debian stable. I could countenance an upgrade to etch but not to sid (I can't