[Gllug] Myth TV setup

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:07 +0000, Justin Perreault wrote:
[snip]
> Aside from the obvious, "the board is dying end its' misery already"
> anything that I might be specifically missing out on from the mythtv
> experience from using it? I am thinking uber-gadget that is only
> available on usb?

Taking the obvious assumption that you don't consider recorded TV
programs to be "valuable data", the only likely reasons to want USB are
for a USB remote control (but most are serial) or a USB capture device
(so don't buy one).

For a capture card, I'd recommend this one:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?CMP-DVBT20

which is cheap and so far 100% reliable using kernel 2.6.14.5 and the
latest Linux TV drivers.

> I will be looking for PCI cards for doing the capture and saving for a
> digital projector for the output. I would be using an Athlon XP chip and
> aiming for 512MB sdram. for storage I am looking at maybe a 40gb drive +
> dvd RW.

You'll fill up 40G pretty quickly - about 30 hours of TV.  OTOH, fitting
a larger drive is trivial.

> Any other pitfalls or suggestions?

The documentation for setting up MythTV is pretty poor but the actual
process isn't as bad as it seems, especially once you've done it once.
Please ask for guidance if you get stuck.

Regards,
John

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