You should checkout www.systm.org (yes, no "e" in systm) and thier video on how to build a PVR with knopmyth. I haven't tried it, but it looks too cool! The video is about 20 minutes in length.
Terry On 6/29/05, David W. Bettis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hear good things about knopmyth (Debian based). > > Nick Cummings wrote: > > > I've also read some people claiming good luck setting up MythTV in > > Ubuntu. > > I haven't looked into it too much, but if it's really the case that might > > be a path of least resistance. > > > > Nick > > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Ritchie, Josiah S. wrote: > > > >> Gentoo will support the MythTV stuff better. Other distros have not > >> really been working towards supporting this. Consequently, they can be > >> much harder to install MythTV on. MythTV, from what I hear, is already a > >> rather hard thing to install. Gentoo has the documentation that should > >> ease this. I also hear that the Happenhauge cards are your best bet to > >> getting this stuff working so I'd do reading before buying hardware as > >> that is somewhat crucial to your experience. > >> > >> JSR/ > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: UM Linux User's Group > >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russ > >>> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 2:21 PM > >>> To: [email protected] > >>> Subject: Re: [UM-LINUX] Distro Age > >>> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> The reason I asked about Slackware was that it was my first > >>> succesful install. I installed it on an older machine. PII > >>> 166 mhz 64meg RAM 8GB HDD. I'm looking for avdice on a > >>> distro to use to build another dual boot machine. Probably > >>> 2-3 GHZ processor 512meg RAM 80-200GB HDD. Running Xp and > >>> Linux, where Linux will run MythTV. I will install a WinTV > >>> card and possibly a pcHDTV card. I was considering trying > >>> this with Slackware for the learning experience. Does it > >>> make more sense for me to install RH or Gentoo or ??? to make > >>> this work? Will Slackware be harder to setup? > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Russ M > >>> > >>> > > > -- > David W. Bettis | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Terry Dunlap
