Michael Fox was once rumoured to have said: > 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.
This sounds like the same cards we've been using for a few months now. > 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. This is drastically overkill unless you're transcoding. Our original mythtv backend was a Dual PII/350 which was more than fast enough to push the DVB-T streams to disk in real time. (we watched stuff on a seperate frontend which was obviously much faster). We're now using a PIII/866 as a combo frontend/backend. It too is running quite nicely as long as we don't try to use picture-in-picture. > 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. Whilst MythTV certainly is very pretty on the UI front, I don't share your enthusiasm for its ongoing improvement. I've been using it since 0.16/0.17ish, and am now running 0.18 - the DVB support is pretty flaky and is only advancing slowly. Myth also makes some very strange decisions on design -- their use of the database as a inter-node communications mechanism is particularly insane. The main bugs I found in 0.18 with DVB are to do with poor signal strength - mythfrontend has no idea how to cope if the backend isn't transmitting data (usually from a DVB card losing signal lock). Mythbackend doesn't retune 'stalled' dvb-t cards that have lost their lock. *grah*. At least this is marginally better than 0.17's habit of crashing randomly. C. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
