[wplug] MythTV

[Edward C. Smith]

I'll have to Check out KnoppMyth. Currently I'm setting it up with FC2 
and KDE as the base on an older box. I'm sort of following 
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/, except I'm using FC2 as oppsoed to FC1. I'm 
trying to set it up with a little hardware purchases as possible just to 
make sure it's workable for me and to get the buy in from my wife. When 
I do put together a real box I'll be with some slightly newer hardware, 
but I really want to get this working first before dropping a bunch of 
money.

How did you setup the TV Out on your Video card? I'm using a old Intense 
VooDoo Rush card and I get the card to sync up properly with the TV. I 
read on ATIs site that 36.1 Khz was the proper HSync but my Xserver 
won't start with that setting.

Just wondering if anybody else has had a similar problem, or has a 
suggestion on how to proceed. After three evenings of fiddling I'm still 
stuck.

Where is the Good Will on the South Side located at? I'll be in the area 
this weekend and Might stop by to see if they have anything I can use.

-Ed

Drew from Zhrodague wrote:

>>Actually before I got my Tivo I did.  Someone on the group was kind enough 
>>to tell me about KnoppMyth  http://hust.la/KnoppMyth/ ..  It's built on 
>>knoppix, but with MythTV..  Very easy to setup, even for a beginner..
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>>The reason I went with Tivo though is the XMLTV listings for my area were 
>>way off, and I didn't have nearly a good enough capture card.
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>>All in all it's a pretty sweet setup though..
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>	I'm in the process of building one now out of Fedora Core 1. Looks 
>like a great system, but configuring some of the hardware I have is a big 
>pain in the ass.
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>	The XMLTV listings that we have, match the Comcast-Cable-Rebuild 
>lineup -- we've got basic-cable. You specify this at the zap2it account, 
>and it will go and download all of the channels and shows. It's really 
>neat if you get it on the first try, but makes you want to stop using it 
>when the channels don't line up properly.
>
>	The Voodoo 3500 TV card I have is junk. Prolly has a great cable 
>tuner, but there's not too many resources to get this wacky thing to work. 
>I can't imagine the QA department allowed this thing to go out the door.
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>	I have an ATI bttv card, but it's reception is pretty bad. I've
>been fighting with that for a day, and was able to get it to display
>channels, but very crappily. (I seem to remember the goodwill in the
>SoSide once had a whole basket full of PCI cable tuners, but they were all
>gone when last I was there)
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>	Also of note, is that the shell of the coax from Comcast will give 
>a small arc when I touch it to the metal PC case. I haven't measured the 
>difference with my handy VOM yet. I noticed this while leaning on the PC 
>to plug it in.
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>	MythTV is a really cool product, is very pretty, and seems to have 
>slightly more features than I thought were available. I'll have to try the 
>KnoppMyth, but I'd rather free the CD player for SVCDs and audio.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: "Edward C. Smith" <esmith at smythenet.com>
>>To: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
>>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:27:52 -0400
>>Subject: [wplug] MythTV
>>
>>WAS: (Re: OT: TiVo archive (was RE: [wplug] Internal hard drive deals?))
>>
>>Since it just came up and I happen to playing with it right now I was 
>>wondering if anybody else has had any experiances with building a Linux PVR 
>>especially a MythTV setup.
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>>I'm just playing with some older hardware trying to determine what all is 
>>necessary to have a nice Media PC for my house without breaking my budget. 
>>One that can record Stargate for me when I'm out is also a huge bonus. :-D
>>
>>So anybody else try this?
>>
>>-Ed
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