Hello.
With my license for Win7 beta about to expire, and my reluctance to pay good money for a retail version, I have been giving a great deal of thought to jumping ship and running MythTV on Linux.
Obviously, my first choice would be to run Mediaportal on Linux, but that's not possible atm, hence my consideration of MythTV.
I've used Linux a few times before, and like it a lot. However, I've never used MythTV and I'm basically just after some advice and opinions on it.
First of all, does anyone know what is going on with regards to hardware acceleration on the Linux side? I know nVidia release closed-source drivers for linux, but that they don't have all the features the Windows ones do. I've heard of something called XvMC, which is supposed to be some sort of substitute for DxVA, but I'm not sure weather this will work on my nVidia 8300 mGPU, or weather it provides bitstream decoding for all the new "bluray" formats.
Secondly, one thing that greatly concerns me is that I have yet to see any decent plugins on MythTV to rival Moving Pictures or MP TV-Series. These are essential to me, and there's no way I could go back to just navigating through folders of filenames now.
Finally, does anyone know if there's a Bluray solution on Linux yet? I have an LG GGW-H20L blu/hddvd combo drive in my PC and I'd like to be able to play blurays. I know you can't even do that in Mediaportal yet, so I'm not holding out much hope of doing it through MythTV (although that would be awesome!) but I need to know if there's a way to to it at all on linux? Otherwise I've got quite a wasted bit of hardware sitting there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially with my second point. Thanks!
With my license for Win7 beta about to expire, and my reluctance to pay good money for a retail version, I have been giving a great deal of thought to jumping ship and running MythTV on Linux.
Obviously, my first choice would be to run Mediaportal on Linux, but that's not possible atm, hence my consideration of MythTV.
I've used Linux a few times before, and like it a lot. However, I've never used MythTV and I'm basically just after some advice and opinions on it.
First of all, does anyone know what is going on with regards to hardware acceleration on the Linux side? I know nVidia release closed-source drivers for linux, but that they don't have all the features the Windows ones do. I've heard of something called XvMC, which is supposed to be some sort of substitute for DxVA, but I'm not sure weather this will work on my nVidia 8300 mGPU, or weather it provides bitstream decoding for all the new "bluray" formats.
Secondly, one thing that greatly concerns me is that I have yet to see any decent plugins on MythTV to rival Moving Pictures or MP TV-Series. These are essential to me, and there's no way I could go back to just navigating through folders of filenames now.
Finally, does anyone know if there's a Bluray solution on Linux yet? I have an LG GGW-H20L blu/hddvd combo drive in my PC and I'd like to be able to play blurays. I know you can't even do that in Mediaportal yet, so I'm not holding out much hope of doing it through MythTV (although that would be awesome!) but I need to know if there's a way to to it at all on linux? Otherwise I've got quite a wasted bit of hardware sitting there.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, especially with my second point. Thanks!