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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi all,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just thought I'd drop a note in here to let you know my experience with setting up MythTV for the first time…</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">At 12:00pm yesterday the last bit of hardware I'd been waiting for (a molex to SATA HD power adapter of all things) arrived, so I began constructing my MythTV backend box. I thought I'd start out with something that could be expanded later if needed, or reused for other stuff if necessary so the hardware was:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Lian-Li PC9320B desktop microATX case / 230W SFX PSU.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Asus P4P800-VM microATX motherboard</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Pentium IV / 800MHz / HT / 2.8GHz</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Dual 256Mb Samsung PC3200 (400MHz) DIMMs installed as Dual DDR</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Seagate ST120.7 7200rpm / SATA / 8Mb cache HD</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 Capture Card</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sony DVD-ROM drive</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">For the software I'd already downloaded Fedora Core and aimed to use Jarod's atrpms guide to get the thing up and working.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">At around 4pm I finished getting the hardware put together, and run through some basic diagnostics to check heat output, memory configuration / timings etc. all looked OK.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By 7pm I'd installed Fedora Core 1, and started configuring the backend services - mysql et al.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By Midnight I'd followed Jarod's guide through and finished the apt updates, and grabbed the mythtv-suite package.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By 2am I was having fun with ivtv trying to work out how to capture and check recordings, hit a bit of a deadend with xawtv until I read the stuff saying why it wasn't going to work with the PVR-350, plodded on...</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By 4am Video capture was working (from the composite input anyway, no luck as yet with the tuner) and I started to try and figure out why I couldn't get any sound captured from the PVR-350.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By 6am I'd got everything working! Sound was being recorded, the tuner now worked (although not yet with MythTV), I could schedule recordings and play them back, started to do some configuration of other MythTV modules. IR was also now working from the Hauppauge remote.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">By 7am I finally sorted out enough hacks to get the channel information into the database (the mythfilldatabase --manual process seemed to keep barfing asking for the channel details and I'm in New Zealand so that was the only way to do it I think), and everything looked good.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So here I am at 7:20am, having spent the best part of 20 hours solid on this thing and it rocks! Next bits to sort out will be the TV-out from the PVR-350 (I'm saving that one for when I'm awake a bit more), possibly add in another capture card I've got kicking around (WinTV 2000XP Deluxe) and to build an IR sender or figure out the serial port to change channels on the satellite box once I move it from my desk to the living room - WAF allowing.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">So *many* thanks to Jarod for the hard work he's put into the install guide, certainly paid off for me, although I did have fun trying to figure out the differences for a PAL B/G tuner / installation and New Zealand TV channels, but would have taken me MUCH longer without the guide.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jon.</FONT>
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