Ive been using it for about 3 years (way back with the old website and
such) and its rock solid now, back then it took me 2 weeks to get
running now i can have a system up in 2 hours. My only problem is i
cant afford better hardware im stuck on an old p4 1.7ghz with a bttv
card and integrated sound.<br>
<br>
Justin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Lopeman</b> <<a href="mailto:lopemanc@swbell.net">lopemanc@swbell.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Chris Lopeman wrote:<br><br>> Jay R. Ashworth wrote:<br>><br>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:57:53PM -0500, Chris Lopeman wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> Is anybody successfully using mythTV on a regular basis? I just
<br>>>> don't<br>>>>
want to put something together
that is going to have problems<br>>>> with<br>>>> basic functionality every other day. Or is gonna work but look<br>>>> like<br>>>> crap on my TV.<br>>>><br>>><br>
>><br>>> Sure, there are lots of people.<br>>><br>>> If you're buying everything from scratch, and you take advice from the<br>>> right people, you stand a *much* better chance of ending up with an
<br>>> appliance.<br>>><br>>> Is a little Linux background helpful? Sure.<br>>><br>>> Will everything go perfectly? Probably not.<br>>><br>>> Does everything go perfectly with a TiVo? Probably not, either.
<br>>><br>>> Is the extra functionality worth the time? Lots of people think so,<br>>> including my sister, who, while she's pretty sharp, really mostly wants<br>>> it to be an appliance as well.<br>
>><br>>> Is this sort of question-talking annoying? You bet. :-)<br>>><br>>> Stick with hardware-MPEG cards like the PVR-250, pick the right<br>>> VGA/NTSC-out card and distribution, and avoid the pinch-y chipsets on
<br>>> motherboards, and you shouldn't have too much trouble.<br>>><br>>> Cheers,<br>>> -- jra<br>>><br>>><br>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br>>><br>>><br>> Wow, Thanks for all the great and fast responses.<br>><br>> Several of you stressed the importance of the right hardware to make
<br>> things go smoothly. Here the PVR-250 was even mentioned. However, I<br>> don't think I can use the PVR-250 because I don't think it can handle<br>> OTA HDTV. And in the previous responses I don't think anybody
<br>> mentioned using HDTV. So maybe the first follow-up question should<br>> be, Are any of you using it successfully with HDTV?<br>><br>> Assuming the answer is yes, I would like to start specifying<br>> hardware. So maybe I should explain what I expect minimally from
<br>> Myth. I would like to setup _*ONE *_box that can record one HDTV show<br>> (probably 1080i or 720p) while being able to pause live HDTV (same<br>> resolution) for another show or watch a DVD. I have seen some posts
<br>> here that imply that MythTV/the hardware chokes under this kind of<br>> treasure. Hopefully this is not the case for Myth and it is just bad<br>> hardware. All of this needs to work with my Toshiba 62hm94 (in HD of
<br>> course).<br>> So based on what I minimally expect from Myth. Please help me spec the<br>> box.<br>> Minimal Processor speed? Probably AMD (to cut down on heat and noise)?<br>> HD Tuner Card (I'll start with just one to get things working.)?
<br>> Video Card?<br>> I don't know if a specific DVD drive matters, but if it does please<br>> recommend one?<br><br>Oops forgot to ask about sound card. 7.1 optical output I would assume?<br><br>> Thanks,<br>
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