On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:38, Chris Miller (Compuville) wrote:
> What I am wanting to do seems simple to me, but I don't know much about
> homemade PVR's, so it could be quite difficult.

Not with Myth.

> First, I'll build a little 
> computer in one of those cool cube cases [...] and stick Gentoo or Debian on 
> it. I'll stick some kind of TV tuner card in it, and plug it into CATV. I 
> want to be able to record shows on TV at any time and have some kind of 
> remote interface to control it by.

Myth frontend running on remote hosts, or...

> I would be happiest with a pretty little web-interface

...MythWeb.

> but SSH-ing into the box and setting up /etc/crontab with vi  
> manually wouldn't be the end of the world.

Myth's recording schedules aren't in crontab. The backend server process 
handles firing off recordings. I don't believe there's an (easy) cli way to 
schedule recordings. But that's what the frontend and mythweb are for.

> The box needs to operate totally  
> headless, only CATV, network and power going into it. I want to be able to
> stream the recorded shows off  that box from any [windows/linux/mac] system 
> on my network. 

Piece o' cake for the Linux and Mac systems, there are native frontend clients 
for both. Windows is a bit more work, there's no native frontend client, but 
you can certainly watch the recorded files.

> Next, I want to be able to watch live TV (when not recording something)
> across the network.

Again, not a problem for Linux or Mac, but I think you're out of luck for live 
TV on Windows boxes righ tnow.

> Now, from what I've gathered, this MAY be possible with MythTV.

Everything but the live TV on Windows (unless I've missed something).

> If it is, 
> does anyone have any hardware recommendations for the setup, specifically
> the capture card?

For non-HDTV cable, the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250.

For more details, http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/ and search the mailing list 
archive, its been covered umpteen times (link to searchable archive in my 
sig).

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