[mythtv-users] A success story and a few questions.

[tufkal]

  have played around with MythTV since 0.15 with mxied success trying 
new things and learning how it all worked. I recently decided a myth box 
in my living room would be a good addition, and I had a Pentium III 
500mhz / 192MB RAM / 10GB HD sitting around to abuse. I am a user of 
Mandriva (Mandrake) linux, so I installed the backend on my server and 
added a BT878 card. Using Mandriva 2005 LE and thac's latest RPMs for 
Myth, it was up and running in 2 minutes flat. Setup the frontend with 
Mandriva 2005 as well, and everything just worked.

Now by everything I mean live tv, recordings, transcodes, video and 
audio quality, and the basics. I will be fumbling throguh getting 
MythGame, MythMusic, MythVideo, and a few other plugins setup in the 
next week, but that is not what I am worried about.

There are a few things I want to accomplish that I am not sure the best 
way to go about. First of all I have a large wireless network with my 
neighbors and friends, that I would like to offer streaming TV to. Now I 
dont have the hardware to run 5 tuner cards and give everyone frontend 
software. And since there isnt any Windows frontend I know of besides 
tapping in with DSmyth, I am looking for other options. I noticed that 
someone with the DSMyth filters can open the ringbuf1.nuv file and see 
the buffer, but once I change the channel or the file reaches its size 
limit and starts overwriting itself, dsmyth cant handle it. What is the 
best way to get a stream I can share on my network?

The other thing I am looking to do is add a second tuner card so I can 
record a show while wathcing another live. I've adjusted the various 
profile settings so that about 40% cpu usage is used per input, but the 
problem I have run into is when I add the second card, lspci shows it, 
and the necessary /proc entries show the kernel sees the card, but i 
only have 1 /dev/video device present. Do i have to mknod it myself?

Thanks in advance for the help.