[sclug] OT: Dr Who
Tim Sutton
tim at linfiniti.com
Sun May 22 23:51:54 UTC 2005
Hi
I installed mytv on kubuntu a little while ago - installation was pretty
painless I would say...now I just ned to get a coax aerial connected to my tv
card :-P
Tim
On Monday 23 May 2005 00:32, John Stumbles wrote:
> Not just OT but sad too, one way or another. Our DVD recorder decided
> that the disk on which I'd recorded about 1 hour's worth of material at
> EP was full -- in the middle of Dr Who: aargh! (Older readers will
> remember Tony Hancock's unfinished whodunnit: now I know the feeling!)
> Does anyone have a recording of it I could blag, borrow or steal?
> (Reading area).
>
> ObLinux: MythTV seems like the right way to go but the doc page's
> "Initially, installation of MythTV seems like a huge task" isn't
> followed by the half-expected reassurance that really it's not. Having
> tried to install the DVD authoring tools and come unstuck on some
> components that wouldn't compile (that project's still swapped out
> pending more Tuits) I suspect it could take you into fairly deep guru
> territory to make it all work.
>
> ISTR hearing somewhere (here?) of a more-or-less out of the box MythTV +
> distro (Ubuntu?) package but can't find any reference on the MythTV or
> Ubuntu sites or from a quick google.
>
> WRT a previous thread, maybe a working MythTV box (if such a beast is
> not a, er, myth) would be an interest at a woo-the-windoze-weenies day?
>
> cheers
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