[sclug] OT: Dr Who

[Leon Ward]

John

> 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.

I would think that KnoppMyth is what you are looking for?

www.mysettopbox.tv

-Leon



On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 00:32 +0100, 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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