[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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