[wplug] ? MythTV, PVR350 and Install Fest

[Shane Liesegang]

I've built several MythBoxes at this point, and have played with 
KnoppMyth, Fedora, and Ubuntu. I've had the easiest time with Fedora, 
mostly due to Jarod Wilson's excellent howto 
(http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php); if you're new to MythTV (or 
Linux in general), the best bet is probably to go with Jarod.

As for the 350, some people have had trouble getting the on-screen 
display overlay to work properly with it's S-Video out. I know it's 
appealing since it does hardware MPEG decoding as well as encoding, but 
then the system has to do wonky things to insert its information overlay 
into the stream. A reasonably strong processor (I've got a 2 GHz P4 in 
mine) can decode just fine, and you can output to a video card much more 
easily.

Of course, if you were planning on outputting via a video card to start 
with, there's no reason to go with the 350 over the 250.

     - SJML


On 12/13/2005 6:36 AM, Sawders, Daryl wrote:
> I'm really trying to get together the components to build a MythTV setup.
> 
> The reason I'm posting here, is that I hope to be able to bring the components to an InstallFEST.
> 
> I'm looking at the WinTV-PVR-350 card.  Any thoughts PRO and CON ??
> 
> I'm also confused on which version of Linux is "best" for building a MythTV box...
> Yeah, I know...  this is a loaded question.  Please try to limit replies to less than 5000 words and use small words  ;-)
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    - Daryl -
> 
> sawders at ppg.com
> 
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