[mythtv-users] mythtv in the UK

James Fidell james at cloud9.co.uk
Tue May 20 13:10:58 EDT 2003


Quoting gary dawes (garydawes at yahoo.co.uk):

> Just wondering if there are many other Mythtv users
> based in the UK

Me.  There are others too.

>  I've been playing with it for a while, and recently
> built it up onto a dedicated PC, based around an
> Athlon 1700. Still got a couple of gremlins to sort,
> but the biggy is below.

I have a 2.4Ghz P4, 1.5GB RAM and currently a Geforce2, though I'm
experimenting with a Geforce4 and Matrox G400.  For TV reception I have
a couple of Hauppauge WinTV/FM cards and a DVB-T card that I've been
playing with, but I haven't got digital reception working yet.  I don't
actually have an STB and I'm in an area that's marginal for digital
anyway, so I don't actually know if that's lack of signal or a code
problem.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on which way you look at it,
a new-born baby is consuming inordinate amounts of my time at the
moment, so I don't have much opportunity to play with it right now.

>  I have a bog-basic ATI LT-pro, which is not the best as it is only
> NTSC (sorry US people!), and the display, as well as being badly out
> of focus, is offset by about an inch to the bottom left leaving a
> black border around the top, and right. I'm toying with the idea of
> getting a GEforce II but would like an idea of the quality first. I
> have used Laptops with TV out on this tv before, and the quality has
> been much better than it is currently.

The Geforce2 works fine for me, but I also need to fiddle with the
borders a bit.  The biggest problem in may case is that when the borders
are set ok in most of myth, once I start mplayer from mythvideo they
seem to increase in size.  I'm sure that can all be resolved with
appropriate twiddling.  I also have a small interference problem, but as
discussed in other threads, that may well be an earth loop issue -- it
occurs whichever video card I use.

In terms of quality of picture I think it's absolutely fine.  Finding
somewhere I could get the Geforce2 card was more tricky.

James


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