[ale] MythTV InstallFest

[H P Ladds]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM, David W. Millians <millia at panix.com> wrote:
>
> H P Ladds wrote:
>> Hey Crew,
>> Response to the idea of a MythTV InstallFest  was favorable. (See post
>> topic: [OT] DTV reception.)
>
> For the record, I'd come over from Athens for this.

That raises the interesting topic of "What time to begin the event?"
Too early and those traveling won't do it.

>> The basic install of Linux and MythTV has become relatively trivial;
>> however, optimizing a MythTV system is considerably less trivial.
>> Perhaps we should focus the event on maintaining and optimizing a
>> MythTV system.
>
> I'm not sure the install is trivial! I'm fairly experienced and it was
> still confusing...

Yea, I might have been a bit wet on that statement. Not "all wet," but
a bit. For Knoppmyth users it is pretty easy.

>
>> In order to make the event as productive as possible for newbies,
>> perhaps we should establish a prototypical system comprised of known
>> to be dependable hardware. In short, tell attendees that if they
>> show-up with X model video card, Y model capture card/device, and Z
>> amount of processing power, it is very likely that they will leave
>> with a fully functional and dependable machine.
>
> Works for me, especially if it can do QAM. Hint hint.

We gotta do QAM .

>> Should we have presentations? Any VDPAU gurus?
>> Should we do installs in the morning and have "how to" type
>> presentations in the afternoon?
>> Should we branch out to include: Boxee, LinuxMCE, XBMC, Tivo, etc?
>
> I would especially LOVE to see a session on converting an old xbox to a
> front end. If I can't get the 360 working, I'll punt back to the original...

I always though using an Xbox made a lot of sense.



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