[plug] entertainment centre

[Shannon Carver]

If you want to go the easy route, there's a roll your own/live cd style
installation disk called Knoppix-Myth or Knoppmyth, something to that
effect.  Before I set up mythtv on my spare Gentoo machine, I tried this and
everything seemed to work out of the box.

The biggest piece of advice I can give is research the digital tv cards
available before you buy them.  They're a bit touch and go like Wireless
cards.. You get some that work the first their inserted in the system and
you never have a problem with them.  Then there's the other ones with little
to no support which are a true bugger to get working to any acceptable
level.

I've tried a bunch of media centre style apps and I'd recommend MythTV over
all the others.  Windows FreeVo is quite good, but doesn't quite cut it!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Michael Holland
> Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 7:16 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] entertainment centre
> 
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Richard Meyer wrote:
> 
> > If you buy the October issue of Linux magazine (issue 71), it's got an
> > article on how to set up MythTV,
> 
> The article is also available online:
> https://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/71/Media_Center_With_MythTV.pdf
> 
> > once you've got the TV part set up, the rest should be easy ....
> 
> Easy? mythTV? hmmm...
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au