[plug] mythtv, HDTV card

[Randal Adamson]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 07:19 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> Topical: I got mythtv working last night on gentoo with my ancient
> spirit capture card on a desktop machine to test it.  Software install
> was pain free.  Its working - sortof: I have picture but no sound so
> far.  tvtime still works fine.  However I set something wrong at one
> point and the picture went black & white: eventually a hard crash and a
> reboot brought it back.
> 
> bttv and tuners are another sore point.  Theyve changed the interface
> yet AGAIN!  Now my tuner type is 7, not the 1 thats its been for years.
> 
> I am trying to see if I can put together a single media box that will
> satisfy "she who must be pleased" with better features than buying a
> bunch of components (set top box, radio, analog TV receiver, DVD
> recorder/player, etc).  I think it will work, but I need a glitch free
> glitzy demo to sell the idea ... MythTV looks like quite a nice app, but
> its complicated.

It most certainly is a nice app - considering it's FREE! They have a
fair bit of activity on the project too. 

One thing that I'm keen on keeping an eye on is the fact that you can
run both Analog and Digital capture cards together in MythTV. Can't do
that in M$MCE. This is very important if us Aussies wan't HDTV FTA
(Free-to-air) on the Digital card and run Foxtel over the Analogue card.

Cheers,

Ranz