Re: MythTV

[Don Montgomery <donm@methodbydesign.com>]

Dave, I would be very interested to hear any info you have
found about HDTV cards that work (or not) under amd64.  
Thanks, Don

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, David Liontooth wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:13:14 -0800
> From: David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: MythTV
> Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:13:23 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> 
> MythTV compiles on amd64 using the following procedure:
> 
>     * get liblame0 and liblame0-dev from
>       http://debian.freenux.org/debian-marillat-amd64/
>     * add this to /etc/apt/sources.list and run update:
> 
>       deb-src http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv
> 
>     * wajig source mythtv
>     * cd mythtv-0.16
>     * vi debian/control -- add  this to dependencies, after liblame-dev:
> 
>       |  liblame0-dev
> 
>     * apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev libmysqlclient-dev liblircclient-dev
>       libartsc0-dev (this will also install mysql-common)
>     * fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage
> 
> I'm doing this just to test the build, to help me decide whether to 
> advice somone else to buy and amd64 for a capture project, so I've not 
> installed it. I've already tested that a bttv capture card works.
> 
> The second decision is the pcHDTV capture card, which seems to be 
> getting mixed reviews under amd64.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
>