On Mon, October 22, 2007 12:14 pm, Andy George wrote: > Recently, I decided that Windows Media Center being in charge of my PVR > had much in common with a Diesel Mechanic being in charge of my dental > hygiene, so embarked upon what can only be described as the biggest > brain tumour in the known universe. I decided to install Linux Media > Center Edition. > > I spent 4 days Bit Torrenting a 4GB DVD copy of LinuxMCE, which turned > out to be a mongrel. After about a week wrestling with LinuxMCE, I had > been told that Ubuntu 7.04 and it's default MythTV was a good > alternative. Tried this and had more of a success with the PVR after I > changed video cards from an ATI 9600...something, to an nVidia 6200 AGP > card.
LinuxMCE has mythtv plus a lot of extras > > I also changed the TV Tuner card from a ComPro WinTV TV-PVR card to a > Hauppauge PVR150MCE, which doesnt work. I took the defective card back > to Harvey Norman who are more than happy to get me another one, but this > got me wondering. Is there a recommended tuner card for Myth TV, or is > this going to end up a very expensive exercise in Hit Vs Miss, until I > stumble across something that works? > > Your thoughts? > If you want analogue TV the Hauppauge PVR150 (with or without the "MCE" tag is the one to get for mythtv. It is well supported in linux. If you want digital TV, are happy with the channels on freeview and have a suitable dish (a sky one is perfect, its the same satellite) then a Skystar 2 is the card to use. You might also want to join the mythtvnz mailing list. http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/mythtvnz > Andy George > P4-1.8 > 512 MB Ram > 320GB Hard Drives > NVidia 6200 128MB AGP (or will the 256MB ATI card ACTUALLY be better > with Linux?) > [ in between TV Tuner cards at the moment ] > > -- Nick Rout
