[Cialug] DVRs

[Dave Crouse]

I cheated...... I just bought a dvd player with a usb port.......
formatted a 500gb external drive and convert dvd's to avi's..... ;)
Not real pretty, but it works :)



On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM,  <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone in the group set up MythTV/other DVR solutions?  I've been trying
>> to set one up for a while and I'm running into problems.  I'd like to know
>> if anyone has had success with this.
>
> I toyed briefly with installing MythTV on my Fedora 9 laptop the other
> day from "the repository which must not be named" and it seemed to
> work pretty well.  I don't have any TV tuner cards so I wasn't able to
> do any actual TV watching.  There's also MythDora which is a
> customized Fedora 8 install disk (similar to KnoppMyth) but I haven't
> tried it.  Personally I wish there was a MythCentOS as it seems like a
> DVR is something that you wouldn't want to re-install every year just
> to keep getting security updates.
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
>
> "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then
> I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the
> terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve
> them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and
> unfairness of the universe."
>
>        -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon"
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