[Cialug] DVRs

[Tim Champion]

I cheated. ... bought a TiVo. :)  Its not a geeky, but I highly recommend it
as it is much less stressful, and the wife loves it. It's been running
strong for something like 3 years, I think.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:10 AM, <jrnosee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, so here's what I got.
> I started with a Biostar SFF pc (used to be a car computer!) with a 2GHz P4
> (socket 478) w/ ~640mb ram (I think)
> nVidia GeForce FX 5500 AGP graphics card.  Pinnacle PCTV HD Card (800i).
> Mythbuntu 8.04 in hybrid mode.  80 GB "starter" hard drive.
>
> That didn't work so I bumped up to a full tower w/
> Shuttle mobo w/ 3GHz hyper-threaded (64 bit compat.) P4 (LGA775) w/ 1GB
> ram.  Moved my video and tuner cards over, and stuck in a 40GB "test" Hard
> Drive just to set it up.  Same os.
>
> I've followed the steps to get the 800i working and I *can* get channels on
> it.  The problem is when tuning in digital mode I can *usually* get it to
> come up, but when changing channels it locks up.  In analog mode it will
> tune a channel then "drift" past into static.  The same problem exists on
> both machines.  I'm tempted to try it again in Windows <gasp>.  I had it on
> vista temporarially, but it never quite worked right.  I assumed that was
> because it was on a system that couldn't really handle vista.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Theron Conrey <theron.conrey at dice.com>wrote:
>
>>  I've got a dedicated mythbuntu box set up using some old dual NTSC
>> haupauge cards in a media case.  It's worked for me well over the last few
>> years, but it's gone through some serious overhauls every few months because
>> I always get that "ooooh that feature would be nice!" and break something.
>> If I'd just leave it alone, I'd say that I've fantastic luck with it.
>>
>> -Theron
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
>> Of jrnosee at gmail.com [jrnosee at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:06 PM
>> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> *Subject:* [Cialug] DVRs
>>
>>   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.
>>
>> --Justin
>>
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