9.04 Release Notes

Mythbuntu is built upon the base of Ubuntu and thus has all the non-gnome specific features of Ubuntu. You can find Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope release notes here

Note: alternate disks are no longer being made. They had a very low take rate, and we feel it's better to focus our attention on desktop disks.

Features

  • Mythbuntu Log Grabber - This app grabs specific log files into a single area and can upload them to pastebin for easy troubleshooting
  • Auto Partitioner creates separate partitions for root, recordings, and swap (EXT3 and XFS)
  • Mythbuntu Control Centre - Used to modify settings on a Mythbuntu
    system that are not necessarily MythTV specific.
  • Weekly builds are now easily enabled/disabled via an installable package. See Weekly Builds for details
  • MythTV 0.21-fixes20403 included
  • MythNetTV 7 (and GUI) are now packaged and available in the official repos
  • The media is now mastered using the standard Ubuntu media mastering tools. This means there should be no quirky behavior such as /home/ubuntu existing on the target system after install.

Mythbuntu Testing PPA

Software and current versions as of release.

  • Mythbuntu Testing PPA now easily enabled via installable package. See Testing and Reporting for details
  • MythExport (gutsy(1.0.1), hardy(1.0.4), intrepid(2.0), jaunty(2.0))
  • MythNetTV 7 (hardy, intrepid, jaunty)
  • MythNetTV SVN259 (hardy, intrepid, jaunty)
  • MythNetTV GUI 1.0 (hardy, intrepid, jaunty)
  • Mythvideo Bulk Updater 1.14.2 (hardy, intrepid)

Known Issues

Minimum System Requirements:

  • 1.0 GHz x86 or x86_64 Processor****
  • 192 MB of system memory (RAM)
  • 2 GB of disk space (Frontend Role)
  • 20 GB of disk space (Backend Role)
  • Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution
  • Supported TV Tuner Card (Backend Role)

Recommended System Requirements:

  • 2.0 Ghz x86 or x86_64 Processor*
  • 1024 MB of system memory (RAM)
  • 10 GB disk space (Frontend Role)
  • 80 GB+ disk space (Backend Role)**
  • nVidia 128MB Graphics Card w/ TV-Out or equivalent***
  • Supported TV Tuner Card (Backend Role)

* A 3.0 Ghz processor is recommended for frontend installations using HD video due to the increased load upon decoding. A lower end processor can be used however with multiple functions on a single machine (ie - Frontend/Backend Install) it is not recommended. For h.264 HDTV broadcasts at least a 2GHz dual core cpu is required

** 80 GB of disk space allows approx 70 GB of usable space for media. However with HD Format it is recommended to use 160 GB HDD or larger.

*** Although nVidia is recommended, ATI, VIA, or Intel graphics cards are supported and will work. Currently, nVidia provides a higher level of support. Also the graphics recommendation is based on HDTV capable output processing.

**** i686 compatible or later. VIA C3 processors (and other pre-i686 processors) are missing certain features that the Ubuntu MythTV packages are optimized for. MythTV can be made to work on these processors, but it is unsupported.

Note: A good estimate for converting hard disk space to hours of recordings are as follows:

  • Standard Definition (Analog) 2.2 GB / Hour
  • High Definition (HDTV) 7 GB / Hour

Please report any bugs through Launchpad and seek support via the Mythbuntu forums.