PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 14, Issue 65

[Mike]

All the good stuff is on at the same time ;)

I used to do QAM over cox with it. I figured out the pid's for all of the
channels before a Cox technician came and put a filter someplace on my
building blocking all QAM reception to everything. So now I have to use
OTA/8VSB for HD.

Last I heard my channls for Phoenix QAM from the myth wiki still work if
you want to try them.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Working_QAM_cable_layout#Phoenix.2C_AZ_-_Cox

There *should* be more channels than that over QAM in PHX these days.

Mine doesn't rip then burn DVD's. It only rips them right now. I have to
manually back them up on DVD's from the .vob files. It will only transcode
and burn the shows recorded from the hauppauge cards to DVD.

Mythtv 0.20 will have some patches to get mytharchive working where you
can do what you your talking about. Right now you have to use svn to get
them working nicely together.

-Mike

> Holy cripe.. that's a lot of tuners..
>
> :)
>
> For HD.. do you just pick up 'over the air' content?
>
> Do you have your setup configured so you can 'rip' content to DVD too?
>
>> > Ok.. I am dumping my DirecTivo and going with a MythTV box..
>> >
>> > I'll be running Cox cable.. what are you guys / gals doing for your
>> > MythTV box here in Phx?
>> >
>> > thanks!
>> >
>>
>> My backend server runs on a A7N8X deluxe 2600+ with 1 gig. It has a
>> PVR-350, PVR-500 and a HD-3000 in it. (so 3 SD and 1 HD tuners) It runs
>> sarge primarily with a 2.6.16 kernel I compiled just for it. The backend
>> and all of its dependencies like ffmpeg and trancode are compiled from
>> source and I haven't used any debs outside of the standard repo's.
>>
>> My main frontend is just some dumpy computer with a 2600+ on an ECS
>> motherboard in a HTPC case I got at frys. (silverstone something or
>> other) You can really use anything for the frontends as long as your
>> TV-OUT method is do-able under linux. But both of my frontends are just
>> sarge with the packages from debian-multimedia repositories. 1 is
>> wireless and the other is wired. Then both of the regular desktops can
>> be used as frontends too.
>>
>> If you want HD playback you really need about a 2.6ghz or better to
>> achieve it. XvMC is too unstable for my tastes so if you ask me, i'd say
>> write that whole idea off and just get the power if to play HD if you go
>> that route. If your looking for just SD playback on say a
>> PVR-150/250/350/500, you can get a really crappy computer to work just
>> fine with that even in a frontend/backend configuration. One of my
>> friends at work liked mythtv so he did it himself with a PVR-500 on a
>> 700mhz computer with a nvidia 5200 with tv-out. He says its a little
>> painful when commercial flagging is enabled and trying to watch tv at
>> the same time, but it works. Me I don't really notice anything when its
>> commercial flagging on the 2600+. I only start noticing when It
>> transcoding the shows for the podcasts to my ipod or transcoding a show
>> its burning to DVD. I don't know if that gives you any indication of the
>> speed you need.
>>
>> You'll probably be interested in remotes. I have 3. an ATI Remote Wonder
>> which is RF. (don't get this one, its easy to setup but sort of painful
>> to use) the hauppage grey remote which is IR and runs from i2c on the
>> PVR-350. (this one is nice but the jack on the back of the card is loose
>> for most people) and an serial ira3 I use with a universal remote I got
>> from frys. The ira3 is nice and works extremely well with my hauppauge
>> remote, but the philips remote I got for it kind of sucks. But I could
>> always just go get a better remote which is the nice thing. It just
>> takes a little time to map out all of the keys and bind them to
>> myth/xine/mplayer/etc
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