I have used mythtv before and it is not too hard to set up. There are binarys out there for Fedora/Redhat, and Debian unstable, and there is a very good guide (Jarods guide) on how to setup mythtv on Fedora, but I found it invalueable for figuring out how to get cheaper connexant based chips to work properly with mythtv in Debian.
I have a connexant bt878 (8bit) Proview playtv $36 based capture card, and I just ordered from newegg a connexant based cx23xxx (10 bit) LEADTEK/EXPERT TV2000XP $50 capture card so I can have two tuners. I also ordered a Chaintech 7nif2 motherbaoard as the base for my mythtv box. When its done it will be almost like a tivo, in that I will be able to do all the TV based stuff with a remote control only, and the box will automatically boot into mythtv when I turn it on. I havn't decided on distro yet, Debian is my fav, but Fedora is a little easier to get mythtv working on. Getting mythtv itself working is easy, getting all the other stuff you want to work like remote, fm tuner, tvout at boot time, takes a lot of time. I expect it to take me about a week before I have everything working the way I want. I might be able to have a meeting at my house on thursday night. I have room for about 4-8 people and 1.5Mbps DSL. I have never been to a euglug meeting, but maybe I can have euglug come to me? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
