[TriLUG] MythTV

[Shawn Hartsock]

My chief complaint with the architecture was how the developer ran his
MySQL queries through the Qt lib which meant you had to have Qt on
your backend (which might be headless). It meant building the whole
system from scratch was very dependent on your MySQL and Qt versions.
I haven't built MythTV from scratch in a while so that may have
changed.

IMO the daemon should not be dependent on Qt libs. But I'm not the
original author so what do I know? In the least it made my MythTV
build wreak havoc on my KDE build and MySQL build... but I suppose
that's why I stopped using my Gentoo/MythTV box and switched to Ubuntu
everywhere else.

Are the dependency issues fixed or is it still intimately dependent on
MySQL + Qt lib versions?

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Shawn Hartsock <hartsock at acm.org> wrote:
>> Thanks Tanner. My hardware is all from around 2004 or so and the main
>> MythTV box is running on a dual PIII system with dual analog Haupauge
>> (sic?) tuners. I like this product's specs. I may need to upgrade my
>> MythTV box now. I really like how this thing can be put anywhere on my
>> network so I could have the MythTV box in a different room.
>
> If you're thinking about having the myth box in a different room, that's
> fairly easy.  My current setup is a mythtv backend with 2 Hauppage
> PVR 150 cards in it that sits in my computer closet.  I have front ends
> configured on my Kubuntu desktop, my MacBook, my wife's MacBook,
> and the XBox hooked up to one of our TVs.  Since mythtv is built by
> default with a client server architecture, this is very simple to do (all
> you really have to do is make sure that mysql isn't bound only to
> localhost).
>
>> And it works out of the box with no hacking or bodging about? FTW!
>
> From what I understand yes.  One of these days I'm going to get one.
> I know several LUG members have them and have expressed
> great delight in them.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>
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