[packman] [PM] mythtv 0.21-20 (openSUSE 11.1/i586)

[Robert Nestor]

Your work on building and releasing an updated version of mythtv is  
much appreciated and really makes life easier for the casual or new  
openSUSE user.  Unfortunately someplace along the line it introduced a  
breakage. Since Packman doesn't provide access to older versions the  
only way to fix this is for the user to rebuild from source - not a  
simple feat as you must know!  (I did a system build a couple of weeks  
ago that worked fine from the mythtv that was available on Packman at  
that time, but haven't been able to reproduce those results in a new  
system build recently.)

The problem I'm seeing relates to ripping DVDs.  Apparently the  
"transcode" program has been updated and it processes its arguments  
differently from previous versions.  The "-V" argument passed in by  
the mythvideo plugin doesn't provide an option argument; this is now  
required by the current version of transcode.  This problem is easily  
fixed by either removing the "-V" argument or providing the default  
option value in the mythvideo plugin.  I've tried fixing it myself but  
ran into numerous problems rebuilding mythtv from source.  I'm  
guessing the compile problems I'm seeing are related to the need for  
qt3 but openSUSE 11.1 only has qt4 available.  I'm still too new to  
openSUSE to have found my way thru this, and there doesn't appear to  
be any good detailed instructions online for building mythtv under  
openSUSE.

Would you mind sharing your build setup for rebuilding mythtv under  
openSUSE?  Or could you fix the problem in the mythvideo plugin and  
release an updated package?

Thank you very much,
-bob