Personally, I use BeyondTV under Windows. That along with the Hauppage card was purchased for me as a gift in thanks for some computer work I did or else I'd be still struggling with MythTV. There are other alternatives under Windows such as SageTV (Terry Stockdale from this group I believe uses it) and GBPVR(free).
I just think that the MythTV developer(s?) need to fine tune some of the memory management issues with the program. Or maybe my Gentoo compiler settings were a little too liberal?!?!? :D You didnt' mention what distro you would be attempting it under. Myth of course doesn't cost anything for you to start using and find out if you have the same memory management issues that I had. Maybe YMMV. Also, one point that you can consider is that MythTV creates a special and obscure container called NuppelVideo to store its files in. I am almost certain that mplayer does not support those files out of the box and must have mythtv support compiled in (use="mythtv" on gentoo). I have been unable to get my XBOX to read those files at all. Another issue I've had when attempting to stream files with my Xbox is that the files that MythTV creates are not named anything special (usually timestamped with a long string of digits) so if you attempt to simply share a video directory over Samba to a PC without setting up a MythFrontend all you will see is files named 1302200340203402.nuv. Andrew Richards Jr, Edward C. wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Baudouin [mailto:andrewmb at gmail.com] > 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/* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of > included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. > If you are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act > on information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe > you are not or should not be one of the named recipients, please > notify sender accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this > message prior to forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this > message or attachments thereto. For information regarding the export > control status of items discussed in this document, please refer to > the project control list. Thank you. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >General at brlug.net >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051202/c1421e06/attachment.htm
