[mythtv-users] ivtv doesn't seem to register with KWorld Terminator

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 02:21:27 UTC 2007


On 14/03/07, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Angus <sylvania at istop.com> wrote:
> > > You can test the card with a TV program such a tvtime to see if the
> > > card actually works.
> > >
> >
> >    Uh... ok, I thought that MythTV *was* a TV program. There seems to
> > be a lot of very confusing overlap of terms in this genre. Too many
> > different things share terms.
>
>
> MythTV is a PVR and media application.  Part of that is recording TV,
> but not (really) playing it live from the card.  Even "live tv" is
> buffered and played through the normal mythtv recording system.
>
> TVTime is a PURE "read from video source" tv program.  It does nothing
> else, and is a good "isolation test."  Think of it as wget, and mythtv
> as firefox.

Then the Hauppauge software must be IE...

Nick
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