[mythtv-users] Thinking about switching to MythTV

[Jelle Kalf]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:34:17 -0800
Mattias Larsson <ml at techno.org> wrote:

> two EPIA machines, one M9000 and one M10000 machine. The M9000 machine > is the backend, and it has 2 x PVR-250 PCI cards (with Dish Network 
> satellite recivers connected), and 1 x PVR-USB2 box (Cable connection), 
> and a bunch of disk (3x250, 1x60). The client machine, M10000, is 
> connected to my projector using the PVR-350 for output and it is also 
> used to record Cable, for a total of 4 receivers. It looks like the 
> MythTV's PVR support is quite mature now, but there are a couple of 
> issues I'm still facing:

Nice setup ;)

> - 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?

Have not had any lockups on my M10k. Running it with a PVR250 on gentoo. Running as perfectly.
 
> - 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?

The Actisys IR-200L is supported under linux. You'll just have to fiddle arround a bit with all the codes you want to transmit. I think that will be something you'll partially have to find out yourself.. unless...
Having installed Lirc you can use irdetect to create a file with ircodes just by pressing the buttons on the original remote ;)

> The advantages of going with MythTV are very tempting though. 
> framebuffer on PVR-350 and the ability to rip the noisy harddrive out of 
> my client and boot over the network would be really welcome.

THere are various projects for that. Though you'd be stuck on the update speed of that project to get newer versions of mythtv running. Especially like right now, 0.13 has been released for a while, but in the meantime CVS has so much more advantages for ivtv users (ivtv = the driver project for pvr[2/3]50 cards).

Having a harddrive could be a reall advantage there. (perhaps check for silence before buying the next one, http://www.storagereview.com/)
In the performance database you can for idle noise, but mostly it also counts for working noise as well (I personally have a Barracuda 7200.7 160gb drive).

> Any help is appreciated!
No problem.


Jelle.

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