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From: Andrew Baudouin [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:35 AM
To: General at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] MythTV


Ed,

As a longtime HTPC user I must advise against MythTV.  I have used it
between versions 0.14 and 0.18 and have always had various problems with
stability, sound being out of sync, processes going into zombie states, etc.

I recommend the Hauppage PVR-150 product.  You most probably don't need
the built in TV-encoding feature of the PVR-350 if your video card will
have suitable TV-out... not only that but I don't think that the PVR-350
supports overlay at all so all you would see is the video...not the
guides or anything.  I can recommend any Geforce2MX or greater (with
SVideo out) for video card purposes.

Andrew



Andrew, 

Thanks for the info. If not MythTV, what are you using? With regard to sound 
sync, I have a set top DVD recorder and have that problem even with it. As I 
mentioned previously, I have MythTv set up on my regular Linux box with a 
Hauppauge WinTV 401 and it seems to be working well. I have not had a chance to 
play with it a lot though as I just got it successfully set up. I'm not in a 
hurry with any of this as my primary objective is to further my knowledge and 
use of Linux. I will do some investigation of your recommendations. 

Thanks, 

Ed



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