That being said, I would doubt that information such as this will be diappearing anytime soon....
- Mark
Cory Papenfuss wrote:
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Carrison, Stuart wrote:
Some folks made it in their spare time - and considering this, it ain't *that* hard to get going - they made it pretty easy as long as you've got hardware that's supported by Linux n' IVTV. I considered myself a Linux noob a month ago, after cobling together some decent hardware and recycling some more I've got a great system the wife, kids and I get along with fine.Most of the issues people are having are not inherently MythTV related. They're either linux configuration/driver issues, or stem from the fact that linux isn't a realtime (soft or hard) OS. Also, a lot of the teething pains come from the fact that it *is* so configurable. Think about it... yes, getting the remote to work is a PITA. The beauty of it is you don't have to buy and use the "MythTV model RV-101" remote... just about anything will work.
Is MythTV ready for the prime time - no, probably not. Why? Because it's home-brew, there's no gigantic software company behind it with 24/7 support, buckets of money to pay Mr Wilson with etc. But of course if Myth sold out to some nasty software company we'd loose all the flexibility we have in the system at the moment.The beauty of GPL is that we don't have to worry about that happening. A company might use MythTV as a basis for a product and sell that product and the *support* of it, but the code source must always be published.
But on the other hand, there's no subscription fees and once you get it going _properly_ it's as solid as a rock and can do more than any Tivo, XP MCE or 'other' home brew PVR I've ever seen. You need to take your time with the set-up (especially adding all those cable channels, *groan*).Let's hope the likes of Zap2It continue the service. Without programming info to beg/borrow/steal, MythTV becomes a fancy, expensive VCR.
-Cory
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