Miro - myth TV on Acer One & Linpus Linux

Let us know how you get on. I'll be trying a MythTV trunk frontend on mine when it finally arrives. A backend should be a no brainer, it will easily manage that, although I probably wouldn't chose to try it on an SSD model since people are still concerned about the number of read/write cycles.

In terms of CPU/RAM the One will work as a frontend on paper, especially with a lighter weight theme and the QT painter. However the atom is relatively untested. Vias are known to be extremely poor for video since they lack even the horsepower for mpeg2 decoding. The Intel GPU is sufficient and I guess depending on opengl support in the drivers it might even allow the GL painter to be used.
 
Try here for a list of supported USB DVB-T sticks. In my desktop I have a dual tuner PCI card (the Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T 500) which is basically a USB controller and 2 Nova-T USB tuners on a card, and that works well, so presumably the normal USB version will work well too, but there are different versions so it may depend on which version you end up with.

I wouldn't really want to run both front and backend for MythTV on the Aspire One, it will probably be okay, but slow and unresponsive at times, and the SSD version really doesn't have enough disk space since MythTV writes even live TV to the disk, not to mention the wear it will cause the SSD. MythTV is also a memory hog, the front+backend combined on my desktop uses over half a gig of RAM. For simple TV viewing I'd recommend Kaffeine instead.
 
retsaw said:
MythTV is also a memory hog, the front+backend combined on my desktop uses over half a gig of RAM.
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Well it largely depends on the theme, more images, higher resolution == more RAM. Hopefully the situation will improve with 0.22, some dramatic reductions were made between 0.20 and 0.21, I still think gains can be made.
 
retsaw said:
For simple TV viewing I'd recommend Kaffeine instead.
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Agreed, running a Myth backend on an AA1 isn't the most sensible idea in the world. The frontend, however, works fine.
 
On a related note, if you are in the UK, BBC iPlayer works as well on the AA1 as it does on a desktop.
 
Hi folks,

how to install mythTV as a linux noob? ist there a rpm package?

best regards

Herby
 
There are MythTV packages available on ATrpms(use the Fedora 8 packages), I am using those to run mythfrontend on my one and it performs remarkably well with SDTV, though of course changing to a 1080i HD channel is too much for it.
 
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