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Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet)
Here's an O'ReillyNet article on building a video recorder with MythTV.
"The general advice is not to buy a TV card with its own remote. Apparently, this almost guarantees that you'll have difficulty making it work. The best way is to use an IRda keyboard and a programmable remote control that operates on a variety of frequencies. You train the remote from the keyboard, which will be useful also for web browsing or other activities you might consider later."
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Happy New Year to All! Posted Dec 30, 2004 16:33 UTC (Thu) by genius (guest, #19981) [Link] I would like to thank Linux for popularizing Opteron processors. And to Bill Gates, you suck! To Linus, Solaris is definitely not a joke.
Cheeers!
Happy New Year to All! Posted Dec 30, 2004 21:51 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] Gettin' started early, eh?
Being a little-or-no-alchohol type myself, I've been in system admin just a bit too long so that may change.....
Happy new year to all, including Bill Gates (Billy, I hope you get drunk and give Linus a big kiss!)
Happy New Year to All! Posted Dec 30, 2004 21:54 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link] I guess I shoulda said "A Windows system admin...." maybe if I'd been a Linux system admin I wouldn't be thinking of it.
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Dec 30, 2004 17:52 UTC (Thu) by yanfali (subscriber, #2949) [Link] Isaac Richards and the rest of the contributors have created an incredible platform. I've only been using it since version 0.15, but this is one of the best examples of killer apps for Linux I've ever seen. Kudos to the MythTV team for excellent work during 2004 and here's to an even better 2005!
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Dec 30, 2004 20:09 UTC (Thu) by diyab (guest, #3196) [Link] If you use equipment that has been verified to work you will have no issues. I have a Myth box setup using the Hauppage PVR-250 that is recommended and known to work and there are no issues with the remote.
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Dec 31, 2004 0:36 UTC (Fri) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] PVR-350 here with the included remote working just fine. I think the author of this article needs to read the actual MythTV installation documentation, because he makes some assertions and some recommendations that are contradictory to those docs.
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Dec 31, 2004 8:06 UTC (Fri) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link] Does anyone know the status of the PVR 500? I'm waiting for it to be supported.
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Jan 1, 2005 7:03 UTC (Sat) by sumC (subscriber, #1262) [Link] It seems the support is coming according to this thread:http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Dec-2004/threads.html#00371
I have ordered one myself.
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Jan 2, 2005 23:59 UTC (Sun) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] The referenced discussion shows that they are in the preliminarystages of writing a driver (looking a spec sheets) so it is not a certainty that it will be supported at this point. Do you know if there has been any additional progress?
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Jan 2, 2005 23:00 UTC (Sun) by mdz@debian.org (subscriber, #14112) [Link] The remote included with some ATI all-in-wonder cards works nicely out of the box; it acts as a USB keyboard.
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Jan 2, 2005 23:57 UTC (Sun) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] Do the ATI AIW cards work with MythTV? The website says that they don'tbut it looks like it is somewhat out of date.
I'm considering building one of these systems and I'd like to find a nice
An card that supports ATSC would be nice too, though it appears there is
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Jan 13, 2005 22:00 UTC (Thu) by msk (guest, #24125) [Link] The HD-[23]000 don't encode anything. For ATSC, they pass through the MPEG2 stream that's capture over-the-air, no audio device needed. For NTSC, they're frame-grabbers and for that you'll have to pass the audio to some capture device.
I'm still working out what I'll get to handle ATSC adequately. I prefer AMD (and want to run x86_64), but the mythtv-users list says Intel is far better for decoding that rich of an MPEG2 or MPEG4 (after transcoding) stream.
Alternative Posted Mar 10, 2005 23:31 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] Ok, this is a verrry old article now so few people will read this, but onthe off chance anyone uses the search engine...
I've found more information about this. There are currently two hardware
The HD-3000 works under Linux and supports OTA (over the air) NTSC, but
It also supports OTA ATSC and unencrypted digital cable. Since these are
However, if there are multiple sub-channels, it doesn't have the hardware
There is also the Air2PC. It does not support analog TV, over the air or
What I would like to know is if a PVR-350 can handle MPEG2 input which was
Clever Tricks with MythTV (O'ReillyNet) Posted Jan 27, 2005 10:57 UTC (Thu) by Edster (guest, #27508) [Link] If you get stuck setting up this sort of software have a look at PVR Guide - for help and how-to guides on setting up MythTV
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