[mythtv-users] Some first impressions

[jedi]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 11:40:51PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I've been using Vista Media Center as a stop-gap, and am now trying to
> switch to MythTV on Linux.  Here are some of the things that struck me.
> 
> Getting it sort of set up was difficult, partly because I was trying to
> do it in a chroot.  My system is Debian Lenny; the chroot is debian
> testing, getting packages from Marillat's repository.
> 
> The system seems underdocumented.  In particular, I remain somewhat
> confused about the different components involved in the setup and their
> relation to each other.  There were more components than I expected:
> capture cards, video sources and inputs all sounded as if they were the
> same thing.  The name "video source" seems misleading; this seems to be
> the source of programming information rather than video.
> 
> I have an HDHomeRun tuner (newer version, HDHR3-US) with US over-the-air
> signals.  The ability of the Myth to handle more than one tunerwas very
> important to me.  However, after setting everything up (including
> setting # of tuners to 2 in the HDHR setup) I discovered I could not
> record 2 shows at once.  Googling around turned up that I needed to
> create a separate entry for each tuner, as well as the info that I could

    Given that this is a network device and those tuners could be used
quite litterally by anything (including another MCE box sitting on the
same network), setting up each tuner separately makes a certain amount
of sense.

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