On Mon, 11 May 2009, Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>> Sent: May 10, 2009 8:14 PM
>> To: slug@nks.net
>> Subject: Re: [SLUG] MythTV
>>
>> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Pamela J. Ashworth (webmail) wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone used MythTV?
>>>
>>> since July 2004
>>> there's some things it should do and doesn't and some things i want that it doesn't do, but when my drive died and killed my LVM and i was without it for months, i was lost.
>>>
>>> side note to brother: warranty drive by June
>>
>> The breakout box connection to the combination video/tuner AGP card is flaky
>> so I'm probably going to replace that single card with two cards, one an AGP
>> video card, and one a PCI tuner/video in. I'm debating which OS to put on
>> it though; the sticking point is either QAM tuning (which I haven't liiked
>> into) or my USB-UIRT (pretends it's a remote control to make a cable box
>> change channels). There were only a few people asking about the USB-UIRT,
>> and support for it looks spotty at best.
>>
>> Any idea which cards I should get? Ones not having a breakout box are
>> preferred, since that way there's no connection to get flaky.
>
> um....
>
> we're still using the Hauppage *analog* cards (3 of them)
> on a Suse 10.2 box.
> Jay said something about HD Homerun....
> Don't have a cable box. hanging on to the analog cable real tight.
> there *is* a mailing list for myth. traffic is high. archives at gossamer
> threads.
> or Jay could dive in
I would like to use my analog tuner card, but the cableco only sends a poor
selection of analog channels (basically broadcast plus WGN); the other 700+
are digital. We used to have a VCR; it was wired up so it got the raw
cable, and could only tune among the lower 50.
The breakout box connection to the combination RF-in / video-in / tuner /
video-out card is so flaky I have to have someone hold it straight in order
to get an image on the TV. When I built the box, I tried to put Linux on
it; at the time I had an ATI card, and ATI Linux support sucked, so it
failed and I used EksPee. This time I'll buy the cards (plural; separate
RF-in / tuner / MPEG-encoder and video-out cards) with the express criterion
of cross-platfom usability, so I should meet with more success.
--
-eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
Answer: two spoonfuls in my cup, please.
Question: how much should I use? (why top-posting is bad)
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