Finally taking the leap to QT4...:eek:

I'll give her a spin whenever I can eventually get my system backed up.

I am still on 20.2 and I plan on staying with it for a while since everything is working so well :D Anyone know how easy the upgrade is 20.2 to 22? What are the benefits? I've seen little written about how much better .21 or .22 is, I 've read some threads about databases getting borked during the upgrade.

I'm still on 20.2 as well for the same reasons, works well for me, and I've done numerous customizations (various cron jobs, downloaded and compiled custom programs for various things, web server, etc.). With such a distributed system (3 backends and 5 frontends) it just takes too much time to upgrade for little gain. There are a few features in .21 I'd like to have (multi record, storage groups, etc) but I don't need them. I'm still on Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 for my backends and frontend. When I do finally upgrade, I figure I'll either have completely new hardware and reinstall. Even if I have the same hardware I'll probably reinstall an updated OS and reinstall myth, and then import the database, and redo all my customizations on each machine.

I have no plans to update anytime soon...

I don't see any 0.22 version being available. The latest offered at the MythTV web site is 0.21. The Fedora 8 repository at ATRPMs had a 0.21-189 version available, but no 0.22.

If you are referring to the SVN versions, I tried the 0.21 SVN a while back. I was not able to compile the plugins or themes, only the main MythTV sources would compile for me. I did make a little how-to on doing this, if you're interested. I think that I may have posted it last year.

When you use the SVN version, no other frontends will be able to connect to it.You would need to compile it on every machine.

Yeah, it's a development version available by SVN. I saw it on the wiki --> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

I'm only using one machine, so no biggie, but I'll do a full backup before testing. No need to hose up the database. I just can't go get an external drive right now because it's gonna cost me $1300 to get my car out of the shop :(

Anyway, I'm excited that it's using qt4; but, for the same reason, I expect it will be a while before we see a stable release.

I attached my original "How-To". Keep in mind that it was written for compiling the 0.21 SVN on SuSE 10.2. When I compiled on CentOS 5, I think that there were other prerequisites needed too. Maybe distro specific prerequsites.

Thanks. I'm no stranger to "configure" -- I started out in slackware and would build my whole system from newest sources on a slow-ass pentium pro. My neighbors became quite terrified of me after they heard me screaming at glibc. ;)

OT: you ever get your video straightened out?

It seems to be OK, but the stutter when the on-screen-display is up is the worst I've ever seen in MythTV. I originally also noticed stuttering when there was a lot of movement in HD video. I most likely won't see that again until football season starts again, as baseball is too slow. :rolleyes: By that time there may be a new MythTV version out again.