[mythtv-users] ouple of question relating to setting up a MythTV box

[Lucas Meijer]

Hey,

> Hi,  I'm considering setting up a MythTV box on my lan to act as a 
> PVR. It will be required to record shows, (as a PVR does!), which can 
> then either be watched on the machines monitor or transferred to 
> VCD/DVD for watching on my telly, (i.e. TV out from the machine is 
> NOT a requirement).
> 
> The machine I'm thinking of using is a Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb 
> memory, a GF4 MX4?? and a Hauppauge PVR350.

Make sure you got plenty of HD space.

> Couple of questions though:
> 1).  Whats the best distrbution to use with MythTV.  I currently run 
> SuSE on my machines but I'm not rabid about using that in particular, 
> (although if it works that would be nice).  I am aware that with 
> Fedora I ould need to build a generic kernel to allow the Nvidia 
> drivers to work.

I guess there's no real good answer to this one. Altough it seems SuSE's 
gcc is broken, at least when it comes to myth. I know very little of 
linux, and decided to go for gentoo. It went pretty smooth. I think 
there are no distro's reported as not working, except for SuSE's problem 
with its compiler.

> 2).  Are theer any other "pitfalls" which I am likely to come across?

tons :-)..

However you don't need an hauppage pvr350. The 350 is a 250 + tv out. 
You don't need tv out, so might as well get the cheaper pvr250. 
Otherwise the machine seems to be good enough, I also run an XP2000+ 
with 512mb with an hauppage pvr350, and so far everything is going ok.

Haven't started getting my tvout to work though.

Bye, Lucas