[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This MythTV sounds really cool. I've been reading about it for a few
weeks now, and would like to try it. I have a couple of questions for
those that have it running.
1. What card would you suggest that I use?
2. To install, do I just do apt-get install mythtv?
What are the steps to installation? I'll be starting with a clean machine.
Compaq Deskpro PIII 866 MHz with a 120GB hard drive. I'm looking to
install a basic PVR with one capture card for now. Once I get that
working, I'd like to add more cards to record multiple programs at the
same time.
At this point, I would probably get the PVR-500 or maybe just the
PVR-150. The PVR-150 replaces the 250 and the 350 just has tv-out that
you can use through the ivytv framebuffer and a FM tuner. If all you are
looking for is MythTV and not MythVideo and MythDVD or MythGame on one
machine. I would get the PVR-350 and use tv-out on it. The tv-out is
pretty much the best I've seen but It doesn't really work with anything
else very well. Otherwise get a 150/250/500 with something else for the
tv-out. Nvidia hardware seems to be popular, it's what I'm currently
using also. But my backend is on a system with no monitor attached and I
have frontends sitting at the tv's. (tuners are in the backend and
stream to the frontends with nvidia cards for the tv-out)
With the current stable branch of ivytv drivers, you can use a 250 and a
350... But the unstable branch is almost complete with support for the
150 and 500 (500 is dual 150's on a single board). A large portion of
ivytv users are already using unstable though.
So if you get one of those cards you can run the thing just fine on an
866. I have a Athlon 1 gig with 256 mb of memory and I've never had a
problem with the performance. But if you get a cheaper card that
requires a software encoder/decoder, you'll need a much more powerful
system to really run it well. And if your looking for HDTV, that's
pretty much your only option right now as nothing in that area has
hardware encoders/decoders.
One thing to note is that most of the debian howto's say stuff about how
you have to compile your own kernel/lirc/etc.... Just so you know, that
isn't the case as you can pretty much stay stock and still run MythTV.
All I compiled was the ivtv drivers and ptune to change the channels.
The rest of it is from the repo listed on MythTV's documentation for
debian and proper.
-Mike
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