On 2/2/06, Eric Hattemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matt Darnell wrote: > > On 2/2/06, Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Maddog wrote: > >> > >> > >>> > >>> Mythtv sounds like a winner too! > >>> > > I'm not in Hawaii anymore, but let me know if you get stuck with this. > I have had a mythtv box setup for over a year now. It's not terribly > hard. I'm using Fedora 4. It works great. I do have to worry about > RedHat changing my udev configuration and stopping mythtv from finding > the TV card, but I just have to remember to play with the udev settings > after any major rpm upgrade.
Not sure what that means....but I am sure some of the boys will! You may want to join the mythtv mailing list. It's pretty chatty, > though. But join it for a bit, and people will have interesting > suggestions (not as important now that you have your TV cards). Good idea, I will join right away I have > a bttv card, which is somewhat low quality, doesn't have onboard > processing, but does come automatically in the kernel. The ivtv based > cards are significantly trickier to get working on the kernel level. I > do suggest a card with an onboard mpeg2 processor, though. That will > significantly lower your overhead and let you tape more things > simultaneously while using the computer. > > The main page is at http://www.mythtv.org/ . Now that they've added > plenty of functionality and worked out most of the bugs, I would stick > to the point (non-svn) versions. The svn versions work fine too, but > you feel like you have to keep upgrading. They are as step-by-step as > possible here: http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall . Wow that install guide is awesome! The hardware guide is worth the price alone. Have you ever used the knoppix mythtv distro? When you said FC4, I assume you built it from source. I have literally never seen a linux project as refined and user-friendly > as mythtv. Once it's compiled, you never really need to touch the > command line again (except to start the frontend). All of the setup and > customization are through the cute little menus. It's well documented, > and remarkably easy, unless you have some non-standard hardware. I was looking forward to it before....now I am _really_ looking forward to it. The screen shots put my replaytv to shame I downloaded the dsmyth filters http://dsmyth.sourceforge.net/ , > installed mythweb, and stream my shows to my windows machine. You can > even do live TV over your favorite Windows media player (except "Windows > Media Player TM"). I hear you need something just slightly faster/more > reliable than 802.11b to stream them. I use gigabit ethernet, but I'm > pretty sure 802.11g or 100 Mbit ethernet would do it great. I have an iMac for my machine at home...I wonder if you can stream to it. I use 802.11g I haven't played with any of the mythplugins, except for the mythweb. > But it seems that they install pretty cleanly. > The plugins look really cool. I have 5-6 DVD's I watch a lot....being able to drop them in the myth box & rip them for quick and easy viewing will be very cool. Thanks for the feedback! Do you mind giving you hardware specs - motherboard part #, CPU, which bttv cap card. -Matt
