[mythtv-users] MythTV on Windows

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Mark Gardner <Mark at thegardners.me.uk> wrote:
> Thanks Michael. I omitted to add a smiley!

Mark, please don't top post on this list :)

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: 22 November 2011 09:20
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Windows
>
> On 11/22/2011 04:03 AM, Mark Gardner wrote:
>> Thanks for the sarcastic reply.
>>
>> I was curious because I didn't know the reason - now I do.
>
> It was meant to be a humorous way of saying we support an API that
> doesn't work on Windows.  Wasn't meant to be sarcastic--as it's a
> perfectly reasonable question.
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
>> Sent: 22 November 2011 08:42
>> To: Discussion about MythTV
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV on Windows
>>
>> On 11/22/2011 02:45 AM, Mark Gardner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm also curious as to why most tuners are not supported, when driver
>>> availability seems to be much greater for Windows than Linux. I've
> two
>>> tuners (both apparently supported by MythTV on Linux) that work for a
>>> while but then just give up (TeVii S660 and KWorld 399U); I have both
>>> of them running rock solid with NextPVR on Windows. But NextPVR is
>>> IMHO a poor comparison to MythTV. MythTV (on Ubuntu) with my
> Hauppauge
>>> Nova-T stick is also rock solid.
>> Strangely enough, though, for some inexplicable reason, Windows
> drivers
>> don't support V4L (Video4Linux), the API MythTV uses to access most
>> capture cards.
>>
>> Best bet is to just run a GNU/Linux MythTV backend system, and use
>> whatever client system you want to run mythfrontend.
>>
>> Mike
>
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