Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:40:03 GMT From: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/127856: [NEW PORT] multimedia/mythtv-frontend: MythTV is a homebrew PVR project Message-ID: <200810301340.m9UDe3oB014504@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@bluelife.at>
To: "Max Brazhnikov" <makc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org,
decke@bluelife.at
Subject: Re: ports/127856: [NEW PORT] multimedia/mythtv-frontend: MythTV is
a homebrew PVR project
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:36:31 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, October 30, 2008 12:07 pm, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> Hi Bernhard,
>
> There is multimedia/mythtv in ports already. Is your port something new or
> it should be considered as update for mythtv?
short answer:
Yes, that port has advantages over multimedia/mythtv but cannot be
considered a 1:1 replacement so i have created a seperate PR ports/128419
which fixes the multimedia/mythtv port instead.
long answer:
The multimedia/mythtv 0.20 port has a lot of problems but it also builds a
working backend which is it's only advantage over the mythtv-frontend
port.
But the multimedia/mythtv port uses a patchset which makes it protocol
incompatible to the official 0.20 version so AFAIK you can ONLY use it
with a matching FreeBSD mythtv 0.20 backend. That's very hard to setup
because of lacking driver support in FreeBSD and so it's nearly useless
nowadays if you have no supported card or use a Linux box as your mythtv
backend.
With this port we have the possibility to use FreeBSD as a Frontend and
your linux distro of choice as Mythtv Backend.
--
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/
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