Re: MythTV

I was reading about .20 and that the DVD recording has gotten better.
Recently I have seen some HTPC bare bone kits popping up and it has caught
my attention. I use a soft modded xbox to watch DVDs and listen to mp3 and
put my family pictures on. But it is limited.
On 9/11/06, James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us> wrote:
>
> Luke D wrote:
> > I have been hearing a lot about MythTV lately and I was wondering if
> > it was as good as they say.
> > Has any one set one up and what hardware did they use. And how long
> > did it take them to set up.
> >
> Back in 2004 when I had cable I installed MythTV on a Debian Testing box
> (the now stable distribution). I used the debs from
> www.debian-multimedia.org (use a mirror, etc. etc.) and it was fairly
> painless to install. It does require some libs that were not available
> from Debian, but everything I needed was available from the same
> repository I was getting the MythTV packages. I have heard that it is a
> bear to install for some other distributions - probably because you need
> more RPMs than just MythTV, and have to track them down.
>
> I had it set up with GCI Cable and set up scheduled recordings, could
> watch one channel while recording another, etc. I had a PIII
> 1GHz/512MB/40GB IDE drive - so nothing special hardware wise. My tuner
> was a Hauppage WinTV 250.
>
> > Also has anyone used it to archive there DVD onto the MythTV so they
> > can watch them at any time?
> >
> No, I did put my recordings onto DVD though. (Difficult to do in 2004,
> I hear it is easier to do now - there were some bleeding edge ffmpeg
> tricks at the time.)
>
> I don't have any RECENT experience, so didn't copy the list. Hopefully
> someone else still has cable at home and has set up MythTV recently. :)
>
>
> James Zuelow....................CBJ MIS (907)586-0236
> Network Specialist...Registered Linux User No. 186591
>

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Received on Mon Sep 11 11:56:38 2006