PVR Experiment with MythTV
I’ve been a PVR user for quite some time now. While many people use the Tivo, I started out with the ReplayTV side. My first PVR was the Panasonic Showstopper, a rebranded ReplayTV unit. In fact, I...
View ArticleMythTV Hardware
Here’s what I’ve ordered to build my MythTV unit. I’ll let you know how I like it all once the stuff arrives <grin> Chenbro PC40522-BK Micro-ATX case, $46. It looks nice, sorta like a VCR, I...
View ArticleMythTV remote suggestion
A lot of MythTV users are using lirc for their remote receivers. There are a lot of problems with lirc. For one, it doesn’t come with 2.6 drivers, and it also is limited to working with a single device...
View ArticleMythTV Hardware Review
Last week, I posted a list of hardware that I’m buying for my MythTV. Most if it has arrived and I can make some comments about it now. First, the Chenbro case is really bad. One of the hard drive bays...
View ArticleFirst MythTV Experiences
Well, I’ve had my MythTV setup up and running for a few days now and thought I’d write an initial review. The bottom line is: MythTV is awesome. It is so much nicer than anything I’ve seen before,...
View ArticleMythTV Hints I
Here are some hints that I have gleaned so far: Enabling anti-aliased fonts (font smoothing) Thread on Running multiple frontends/backends (and how they all work together) Explanation of auto-expire...
View ArticleQuick MythTV update
My MythTV system is now mostly complete. My Biostar motherboard had a defective TV out, so it was sent in and now the TV out is working. I’ll post a more complete update in the next few days. In short,...
View ArticleWe\’ve gone HDTV
I’ve been talking a lot about MythTV lately, and here’s a tangential topic: we bought our first HDTV unit last weekend. It’s a widescreen 30″ CRT Philips 30PW8402 unit. We don’t yet have hi-def video...
View ArticleSweet Digital Goodness
Now that we have a HDTV unit and MythTV, it occured to me that there had to be a better way to get video to the HDTV than the standard S-Video cable I’d been using. And sure enough, there is. Our TV...
View ArticleMythTV update
I’ve received two e-mails from people asking for an update on the MythTV project. So here goes. First, concerning the issue with the Biostar motherboard: the Biostar motherboard was bad. The TV out on...
View ArticleHidden Dangers of MythTV
If you’re not careful, you may find MythTV interferes with your thought patterns…
View ArticleHDTV Working with MythTV!
Some time back, I bought a pcHDTV HD-3000 card to use with MythTV. For various reasons, I never got around to getting it set up. Until now. First, a quick background. HDTV is a means to transmit...
View ArticleHDTV Works! Woohoo!
Finally, HDTV is completely working in my MythTV setup. The pcHDTV 3000 card is working nicely with the DVB drivers. My problem was playback performance. After switching to nVidia cards, this is fixed....
View ArticleDon’t Buy Albatron
My MythTV box has an Albatron KM18GPro motherboard in it. Last week, the Ethernet port on it went dead. I can plug in a known good cable, and don’t even get LED activity on the port. Plug the same...
View ArticleHow To Record High-Definition MythTV Files to DVD or Blu-Ray
I’ve long had a problem. Back on January 20, I took the day off work to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama. I saved the HD video recordings MythTV made of the day (off the ATSC broadcast),...
View ArticleMoinMoin as a Personal Wiki, Zen To Done, And A Bit of Ikiwiki
Since I last evaluated and complained about wikis last year, I’ve been using moinmoin for two sites: a public one and a personal one. The personal site has notes on various projects, and my task lists....
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