[mythtv-users] Moving MythTV backend to another computer

[jedi]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 07:25:33PM +0100, Sam Jacobs wrote:
> On 2 April 2014 at 19:12:03, jedi (jedi at mishnet.org) wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:33:07PM +0100, Sam Jacobs wrote:
> > > Mac OS X doesn’t have drivers for USB tuners, not any that MythTV can talk to,
> > > anyway. I did try using a Linux virtual machine, but
> >  
> > Really? I thought there were a number of USB tuners that you could use with
> > EyeTV these days including the Hauppauge 1313? That kind of sucks...
> 
> Maybe, but you’re stuck using EyeTV supported tuners, and they’re generally more expensive. The DVB-S2 tuner I’m using now cost me about £50, I think, less than the EyeTV software itself costs (£60, if you can believe that!).
> 
> You’re also stuck using EyeTV, which, while rock solid for me (more than I can say for the Linux drivers), isn’t particularly featureful—not compared to MythTV, at least. MythTV is a lot of work, though, and if I had the choice of TiVo I’m not entirely sure I’d keep using MythTV… but that’s not to say I’m not enjoying having something to do!

     We were early adopters of the Tivo. It only took a few months of using
MythTV and the family has no interest in touching a Tivo ever again. The WAF
level was so high that I got carte blanch on hardware purchases. 

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