[plug] entertainment centre

[Kev]

Shannon Carver wrote:
> 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...

Perhaps VideoLinux might be a place to start.  I haven't tried it, but I 
do have a copy to have a go one day.

http://www.videolinux.net/news.php

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