Cool, its like a video Podcast. Thanks for the link and your experience.
@:D>
Brian Weeden wrote:
Here is a good place to get started:
http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/
Kevin Rose and the guys have a 45 min video about how to get a MythTV
box running. Not completely in depth, but a good starting point.
Knoppmyth tends to be the easiest distro. It is a Linux Live CD - you
pop it in, reboot, and boom it does all the work itself. A little
configuration and it is up and running. Kevin uses it and there is a
link on the systm page to it.
Personally I don't use MythTV or MCE to do PVR right now. I use my
HTPC simply for playback of DVDs and Xvid files. This is because I
use Satellite and there isnt a really good solution for doing PVR of
that just yet. I have found that the beefiness of the hardware
required is directly related to the res of the video.
The higher resolution the video and the higher the compression, the
more CPU power you will need. HDTV playback using WMV9 or H.264 needs
a 3Ghz P4 to run really smoothly. But, MPEG-2 compression and
playback (what TIVO uses and DVDs) works just fine. But then you have
1GB per hour of video as opposed to 350MB for MPEG-4.
My box is a nForce 2 mobo with a 1.6Ghz Tbird and 512MB of DDR. I am
using an Geforce4 Ti4400 for video playback and have a 1.5 TB RAID 5
array for storage.
On 1/18/06, Stan Zaske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey guys, I've recently been reading a lot about MythTV and how you can
take relatively old and obsolete PC components and build a PVR that will
time shift your favorite programs so you can watch them @ your
convenience. Many people seem to have successfully built MythTV boxes
with little more than old Celerons and Durons with inexpensive PVR 150's
and such.
Has anybody on the list done this as I would be interested in your
hardware setup and the Linux distro you used and the hoops you had to
jump through to get it up and running. Some people have actually taken
old Xbox's and gotten Myth to work that way. Its really cool what some
people have succeeded in using to record and view SDTV @ home in their
living rooms. Appreciate your feedback. @:D>
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Brian
