[mythtv-users] MythTV vs Media Center - funny
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Sun Jan 21 17:37:30 UTC 2007
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Gary Dawes wrote:
> Interesting. I have a workmate, (we are both in IT support), who
> after being pusuaded by me, in his limited spare time has been
> setting up a mythbox based on a barebones Media center PC
> manufactured by FIC. In the UK it was sold by Elonex until they
> went bust.
>
> He's been getting frustrated, and obtained a copy of MCE to see if
> it fared any better with his hardware, which was designed as an MCE
> platform, and like yourself it did not discover half the hardware
> and failed to launch full stop.
>
> He then chucked the latest knoppmyth on it, and had a working
> system minus the channel setup in about 40 minutes. He's some back
> to the right side of the tracks.
>
Even if for some strange reason you want to run Windows you are
generally better off using the software that came with your capture
device and not MCE.
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