LinHES

No, I don't want to re-open. Sorry, I get it. I just wanted to close with a broad comment about relevence that's too dang gauche for the forums :)

The MythTV w/ VDPAU is easy enough to install.
All one has to do is open an xterm and issue a
few commands (details are on the forum)

If you search for my posts you'll see that I have been scraping the dirt for MONTHS trying to get LinHES to work. I finally did. I'll be writing about it. It was not simple for me. Vdpau was not simple, but essential. It could have been simple, had I had either the know-how or the right informational guide. I am not the only one. I DO scour the forums and try to learn. I am not a dummy, really. I am not a fool, but I AM more persistent than most who would flee right away to Sage TV. :) (Take a look for yourself at Sage forums -- search for "Knoppmyth" -- interesting yes?)

I mean this with more awe and respect than you probably realize. Running away would have been natural. I think I'm one-in-a-million here :) (Again, look at your own forums. Hey now, this proved interesting! Netstalk some ephemeral usersnames. While you're at it, note their initial experiences here. You see, that's an invisible perspective, right?) It is precisely because these simple solutions are obvious to those here who have structural knowledge of Linux and MythTV that they are not available to those like me (even though they "are"). Ironic, because Knoppmyth, Mythdora and Mythbunuto are intended to be the step away doin-it-from-scratch, and absolutely the savior of the Myth project (really, it couldn't survive). If I had the latest and greatest hardware and gadget for everything, I wouldn't be doing DIY. But don't take me for a fluke.

Knoppmyth in its original incarnations worked just as you intended, in the very recent days of primarily analog TV. It worked like a Genie for the likes of me. It will again (though too long from now?) as long as Myth dev can keep it together. But meanwhile, in this new age of Qam / ATSC, I hate to see these folks further losing hold of their raison d'être, while gaming hardware takes the cake in the commercial world. Well, and Windows Media Player is so dang in our faces. In fact, I think it is why Mythbuntu is shrinking (look at their forums too) and Mythdora. It is a testament to the expertise at, and solidity of, Knoppmyth/LinHES that you are so strong. Though, again, the voices in your forums have selected to a fairly contained, sufficiently expert, dedicated, passionate bunch. May I suggest -- again, with the greatest of respect and appreciation possible -- that the alternative would be a broader, growing and thus necessarily dumber bunch! Ah, now we're at the crux of issues of relevence and sustainability. It may be counter-productive to discourage (not on purpose, I realize) in the glow of digital TV the most promoting niche, even if aggravating, for whom you champion the appliance-that-works concept.

All I'm saying is, "All one has to do is open an xterm and issue a few commands (details are on the forum)" is not as it sounds. But it is essential. My contention is, what you MEANT to say is actually not inconsequential to your endeavors.

Cheereo!

-wp

(Dawkins wrote of why the symbolic Bill Gates will always have the upper hand in homes and the economy, and will eventually strangle open source efficacy with intellectual property dominance -- the DRM TV danger case-in-point. Most people believe it is that the Gates has cosy establishment money and power and marketing ability, despite tamped-down technical capability. In reality, it is a self-limiting and oxymoronic cultural inevitability in open source: The clique of egalitarians. The convention went out to sea, and the discourse went with them. Anyway, wow, I'm getting ahead of myself :) )