[mythtv-users] Thinking about switching to MythTV

Andrew Dodd atd7 at cornell.edu
Fri Jan 16 18:15:42 EST 2004


Quoting Torsten Schenkel <torsten.schenkel at web.de>:

> Am Fr, den 16.01.2004 schrieb Mattias Larsson um 22:34:
> 
> > - I'm concerned that maybe the lockups I get on my Via EPIA systems are 
> > related to hardware and not software, thus a switch to Linux wouldn't 
> > help anything. Has anyone else successfully run MythTV on EPIA hardware 
> > without experiencing lock ups?
> 
> Actually, as far as I can tell, the EPIA seems to be the most stable
> hardware for the PVR250/350 at the moment :-)
> 
> The ivtv driver is not yet perfect, but from what I hear from the
> windows world -- and your mail supports this notion, it's more stable
> than the Windows driver. Locks for me definitely are software, not
> hardware.
> 
Encoding is definately very solid.  The only time I've crashed my system was
when I was hacking FM support into the drivers.  (i.e. entirely my fault for
putting a bug in there.  :)

PVR-350 TV-Out is still a work in progress though.  There seem to be issues with
bringing up the OSD while watching Live TV, but the developers are working hard
on tracking that problem down.


> 
> > - Can the ActiSys IR-200L ir blaster be used to control the satellite 
> > receivers?
> > 
> > - Is the IRMan supported for IR control of the mythtv frontend?
> 
> Don't know, but I think I remember the names from success messages.
IRMan is definately supported via LIRC.  I recall seeing the Actisys IR blaster
listed in the LIRC docs.

Pretty much go to lirc.org - if LIRC supports it, MythTV supports it, as all of
its remote support is either via commandline shell of builtin native LIRC suppport.

>From what I've seen of the networking protocol so far it's relatively simple, as
far as creating a Windows backend for supporting the PVR-USB2.

I know at least one of the USB PVR devices has rudimentary Linux support
(composite in, no tuning support.), so it theoretically shouldn't be TOO hard to
get it to work with MythTV.



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