I thought I would send a quick post about my progress with mythtv in the recent weeks.
As people would of last saw I bought a DVICO fusion plus card and soon after ditched it. I then purchased a Twinhan based card for $90.20 and this card worked very well. Alot better then the other card mentioned. Although its the mini Twinhan, so only has a tv antenna socket, nothing else on it. The Twinhan card works very very well, and I managed to find a quick way to get it working. I armed myself with the latest Ubuntu 5.10 cd set and to my surprise I managed to get the card working and detected without having to recompile the kernel. Just had to edit some files. I then went on to update the sources.list to point to a multiverse/universe internet mirror and obtained more packages. Do a bit more edits and then install mythtv from multiverse. After about say 1hr or more from start to finish you should have a working backend and frontend on Ubuntu 5.10 with the card. I've written a quick howto on the process I followed, including any files I had to vi along the way. I still need to write the steps after running mythtv-setup, and this will be the most difficult. However should I get these done I will post the howto info on my website. Hopefully others can then follow. So impressed that I just ordered a 2nd tuner card so that the machine can have 2 dvb-t pci cards and can now record 2 different channels at the sametime. I think my Athlon 2800 will be put to good user as mythbackend when my new Athlon X2 system gets built in about 3 months or so. If anyone has some questions or would like some help, I'd be more then happy to contribute as I can. I can see mythtv becoming alot better as time goes on. I am also very impressed by some OSD themes I found too. Which makes the onscreen display very pro looking. I might have to eventually make a frontend that hooks upto a tv with a working remote. Thanks for the help along the way from various people, some of your information has certainly helped. The only problem I am faced with is that the mjpegtools package on Ubuntu 5.10 is an RC2 version and it appears the nuvexport tools dont like using it, so it dont work. Hopefully I can find a backported version from next ubuntu release, or find someone to build me one thats not based on an RC2 version. As getting nuvexport to working would be good. Anyone know any ubuntu developers :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
