[Gllug] New home linux system

[Jack Bertram]

* Sean Burlington <sean at uncertainty.org.uk> [050125 14:18]:
> >On a related note, is anyone on GLLUG doing their own TiVO-esque Linux
> >stuff.  (I remember reading about this recently on AnandTech - MythTV
> >seems to be the thing of choice).  How well does it work in the UK?

> 	I run mythtv with an nVidia card for TV out
> 
> It works really well - in fact I lose touch with live TV these days

That's what I'm after...!

> I have a DVB card which gives me the freeview channels in great quality 
> - they are saved as the arrive in MPEG2 format so the file size is quite 
> large and compressing to MPEG4 is apparently tricky to get right but I 
> haven't tried it yet.

Which DVB card do you have?  Would you recommend it, or another one?

> The web interface to program listings & recording schedules is really 
> easy to use.

Presumably I can use this remotely as well as from my home?

> I was tempted by the hard disk recorders now available commercially but 
> according to reviews these are still buggy and the tv guide transmited 
> on the DVB signal is incomplete for some channels.

Where does MythTV get its tv guide from?  Does it do things like
rescheduling recording if programme scheduling changes?

> In the end I decided that MythTV has a feature set that isn't even 
> nearly matched elsewhere ...

I'm very tempted.

jack
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