On Nov 21, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: > There's no reason to tie your TV to your computer btw. Although I've > not got around to setting it up, I bought a Hauppage card which has > both a TV in and a TV out. It'll take me a bit of effort to get it > going as I want to use it on Linux with http://www.mythtv.org/ and the > baby doesn't give me much time to hack with machines. > ... > > MythTV looks pretty sweet. Mp3 player, photo slideshow, computer-game > emulator, check the internet news via RSS, and all the various video > features you'd expect.
I'm running MythTV on a Linux box right now with a Win-TV-350. It was a bit of a pain to get set up, but pretty much gives me TIVO capabilities and more, even though I don't schedule much recording. I use it most of the time with XawTV to watch stuff in the background while I'm working. The picture quality on recordings is startlingly good compared to a VCR. My project is to build a Tivo-type box using a mini-ATX Athlon board with DVD-RW and an IR controller and put it next to the TV upstairs. I've got all the pieces but the IR controller and a nice quiet mini-ATX box to put the stuff in. I'll probably have the thing done before Christmas because Bill Rising keeps prodding me to finish it up. It will certainly be done before baseball season rolls around. PS/ If anyone knows of a really quiet mini-ATX enclosure, please let me know. PPS/ If anyone's planning to build one of these things, time's a wasting. The new copyright agreements made between the RIAA and the TV card manufacturers will make it a lot harder to do so in a few months. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3941 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20041121/abe0dcda/attachment.bin
