| 1 | I know some people are going to point and laugh because I'm running an |
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| 2 | old version. Personally, I don't care. But I'm explaining why, here, |
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| 3 | because I want this patch to be considered seriously regardless, even |
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| 4 | though I won't have a tested version for trunk before the feature |
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| 5 | freeze window closes. And I'm doing it here because having this |
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| 6 | hashed out on the list is just a distraction. |
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| 8 | Note that, once 0.22 comes out, I'll probably transition to it. |
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| 9 | Eventually. But not today. |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | So why am I running such an old version, namely 0.18.1? Because it |
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| 12 | works for me: |
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| 13 | (a) This system is used as part of a research project. It's in |
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| 14 | production. There is a ton of scaffolding written around it. |
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| 15 | Disturbing that could disturb a lot of other things. |
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| 16 | (b) I only ever record SD, never HD, and display it using a PVR-350 |
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| 17 | on an actual interlaced, analog, SD CRT. Later versions tend to |
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| 18 | want to speak OpenGL and use widescreen themes. Now that 0.22 |
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| 19 | will support VDPAU, and hence perhaps deinterlacers that look as |
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| 20 | good as my native interlaced, I might start running it. But only |
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| 21 | if it still supports my existing SDTV setup, of course, if I can |
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| 22 | find a card that can output interlaced and looks as good. |
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| 23 | (c) Upgrading MythTV is very tricky for a production system, since: |
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| 24 | (1) You can't ever go backwards. |
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| 25 | (2) You need real hardware to test with. |
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| 26 | (3) Some bugs are intermittent and won't manifest immediately. |
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| 27 | This means, by the time you know you're in trouble, you're |
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| 28 | screwed, unless you'd like to dump everything Myth's recorded |
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| 29 | since the upgrade. Or unless you have a completely separate set |
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| 30 | of hardware (including tuners! and cable boxes!) to run your test |
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| 31 | with. So upgrading is only worth the pain and potential hassles |
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| 32 | if it offers clear advantages. For what -I- do, so far, 0.18.1's |
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| 33 | been good enough. Sometime soon, I'll jump to 0.22 when I can do |
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| 34 | so without disturbing my production setup and then test it very |
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| 35 | thoroughly before cutting over. That day has not yet arrived. |
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