<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/20/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> On 11/20/07, <a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a> <<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">
jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> > Hi everyone,<br>>> ><br>>> > I've got a kinda crappy old computer (its a Cisnet Circuit City<br>>> special)<br>>> > with a Hauppage Win-TV (series 878/9 I think) that I've dropped into
<br>>> it.<br>>> > I'd like to upgrade to MythBuntu from windoz (I can't even watch TV<br>>> and<br>>> > surf<br>>><br>>> ...shouldn't be a problem.<br>>><br>
>> Those chipsets have been supported in Linux for a LONG time. Their<br>>> programming specs have been freely available since the beginning.<br>>><br>>> I used those docs myself to tweak the original bttv driver to support
<br>>> the 878/9.<br>>><br>>> [deletia]<br>><br>><br>> Fantastic. I can't wait to get hacking and cracking.<br>><br>> BTW, I have a lot of experience with Debian but I'm a complete newbie when
<br>> it comes to MythTV. Do you think the Mythbuntu distribution will be a<br>> good<br>> place for me to start so that I can get myself up and running quickly?<br><br>...just use the regular Ubuntu 7.10 distribution.
<br><br>A special purpose vertical distro really isn't needed.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a>
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<div>I've got an Ubuntu Feisty installation running MythTV 0.20.2 with a WinTV-Go(bttv 879) and a WinTV-PVR150. The bttv card works great and I only added the PVR150 to be able to tune two channels at a time. I would only caution that you may have to really crank down the recording quality if you plan to watch and record at the same time.
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