[mythtv-users] Ideal Setup

[Paul Smith]

At 13:48 01/05/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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>"it's a shame there's nothing like it for Windows so it doesn't take weeks 
>to set up..."
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><http://www.myhtpc.net/>http://www.myhtpc.net/
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>I'm not saying this is equal to MythTV... only that it is an interesting 
>option for Windows users.
>With a WinTV PVR card it works pretty well.

Hmm, when I looked at myhtpc it looked to be just a front end to launch 
other programs, eg WinTV2000 etc. Since Hauppauge's software is a pile of 
**** that isn't what I wanted. I want something with a unified GUI across 
all its features.

ShowShifter is the best thing I've come across for Windows for what I want 
(standalone PC based PVR) and it has its own TV viewing software (which 
works a lot better than WinTV) but doesn't support the WinTV PVR cards yet, 
and only supports one card, has no built-in EPG, needs lots of 'clicks' to 
get anywhere, not open source etc etc.

There are things I prefer about ShowShifter to MythTV (eg in MythTV it uses 
MPlayer to view videos which has a totally different GUI to the rest of 
MythTV) but I expect these will improve over time. The main problem (IMHO) 
with MythTV is the setup issue, which is generally where Windows always 
tends to beat Linux hands down (IMHO).

I have a TiVo box, and so far that is by far the best of the options (and 
it's by far the cheapest option as well.. (£399 for the box & £199 for a 
lifetime subscription = £600. My MythTV box so far has cost around £800-900 
(OK it has more disk space))), but MythTV is more expandable, and, 
hopefully, will become better than TiVo in the near future (whereas TiVo 
isn't being sold or developed any more in the UK).


>-Nathan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul Smith [<mailto:paullocal at pscs.co.uk>mailto:paullocal at pscs.co.uk]
>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 4:49 AM
>To: Discussion about mythtv
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Ideal Setup
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>
> >their system(s).  What mistake did you make when selecting hardware?
>
>My main mistake was the TV Tuner cards I bought - I got Pinnacle PC TV Rage
>cards which have a tuner on which isn't supported by Linux. This might just
>be the PAL version, and possibly just some versions, but it was a problem.
>
>Fortunately, it wasn't a major problem because they work fine in Windows,
>so I just did some swapping around and two BT878 cards out of a couple of
>my Windows PCs and put them in the Linux one, but for other people it might
>be a bigger problem.
>
>The other mistake was listening to the people who say that Linux is easy to
>use nowadays.... :-)
>
>Having said that, MythTV is great, it's a shame there's nothing like it for
>Windows so it doesn't take weeks to set up... (unless you're a Linux expert)
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