<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Frank Feuerbacher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fbacher@brisbin.net" target="_blank">fbacher@brisbin.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have been experimenting with an InfiniTV PCI-e board with NextPVR (using SageDCT and NextPVR's NetworkRecorder). I have just set up XBMC (Frodo-RC2) on my new Ubuntu 12.10 box. I would like to try out MythTV. Since my InfiniTV is in semi-production mode I would like to keep the disruption to a minimum by using some combination of MythTV's NetworkRecorder, the Ceton Network Tuner or Bridging of the Ceton network interface. It looks like this is possible to do, but it also seems that MythTV has a reputation for being a bit difficult to configure. I am no computer wimp, but I admit the fight can all be a tad tiring after a while.<br>
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Is this a rational thing to do? Are there any suggestions or guidance other than the wiki page for the InfiniTV (<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ceton_InfiniTV_4" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/<u></u>Ceton_InfiniTV_4</a>)? I'm planning on using the latest MythTV and praying that it will integrate with XBMC (eventually, if not immediately).<br>
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Also, any general feedback on using the InfiniTV with MythTV locally, or otherwise would be useful. My experience with NextPVR is that it works fairly well as long as you don't watch live TV or change channels (which generally works for me). The (1080-i mpeg2) .ts files produced using my cable operator tend to be noisy, preventing playback by VLC and requiring processing with ts4np.exe and/or Project-X before Avidemux or VLC will work with them.<br>
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Thanx<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Yes bridging works well. I have two
Ceton cards. One card set local only and one in bridged mode that I
use with testing on WinOS DVR apps over the network. It took me a
month or two of reading and trial and error before my MythTV system
was stable enough to be called functional. And it has remained this
way for the passed 10+ months. I had fun learning every step of the
way.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">The only tips that I think that would
help are:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">You NEED your signal strength a SNR at
acceptable levels to avoid recording and live TV errors. All thought
MythTV handles signal errors very well.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">When bridging the Ceton card you need
to slow down and or rearrange the boot process a bit to allow the
card to obtain an IP address before MythTVbackend starts.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Hope that’s helpful. </p></div>