<br><tt><font size=2>> As for making myth run for your country of choice:<br>
> All you need is to configure the program for your language preference.<br>
> Capturing is done by the capture device you chose which also should
have<br>
> been chosen for your specific needs</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>As Bill Wobblestick would say "aye, and there's
the rub!".</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>As someone who has built a couple of Mythtv systems
over the years, the remaining awful, risky, painful, tedious, "must-be-a-tech-geek"
area is finding a tuner card that works. I'm talking DVB-T here folks,
not analog inputs.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>If you look at LinuxTV and Mythtv and other wikis
there is lots of great information about tuners that you can no longer
buy, or are PCI when your system only has PCI-E slots. TO find out
about actual support you need to delve into the linuxtv mailing lists,
and/or read the source code for comments like "Scumby XYZ tuner (revision
E) is now supported, revision F sold in the same packaging and indistinguishable
from revision E until you plug it onto your system is not now, and never
will be supported".</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>The mythtv developers have done a great job to make
mythtv reasonably simple to implement, and can't be blamed for the tuner
fiasco we see now. Proprietary chips, internal changes to tuners
where chipsets are changed with no change in external name or packaging
of the tuner card/USB stick, all these and more are the blight on the world
of Mythtv.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I've tried to do my bit and update the LinuxTV wiki
with my experiences, but again the tuners I have working now are not that
accessible or useful (PCI- no longer sold, USB- one of 2 tuners on the
Pinnacle USB stick works).</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Maybe we should approach one of the smaller manufacturers
to get some "certified for Mythtv" cards/USB sticks. If
all Mythtv users used just that product it might be enough quantity to
get their interest.</font></tt>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Maybe Mythtv needs a "report my installation"
which would (say) every 6 months ask you if it can send back a snapshot
of the tuner cards in people's systems, as well as giving us an idea of
the # of mythtv users in various countries. WIth some real number
then we might be able to make a case to hardware manufacturers.</font></tt>