On 2/5/06, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sean,
Thanks for the response.
What hardware problems are you having? Are you using non-standard
architecture( AMD, etc. ) Did you purchase the PVR-350 direct
from the manufacturer?
thanks, josh
On 2/5/06, sean <
sean@emvis.net> wrote:
I built a Ubuntu-based MythTV box with a PVR-350. It's still a work in
progress and most of my bugs are hardware, so I'm not sure how
"complete" it is.
ahh, the glory of building it yourself.
--sean
Leslie Williams wrote:
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>
>>
>> Craig,
>>
>> Are you a MythTV user? Are there any MythTV users/developers in
>> the AZ area?
>>
>> If you or anyone else have experience with MythTV please reply mail.
>>
>> Thanks, JMZ
>>
>
> I've been using MythTV for over a year. What did you want to know?
>
> -Leslie
I also be a MythTV User about a year.
Started on FC2 and have continually updated it. I've reinstalled
it about 7 times using Jared Wilson's howto, and once or twice on
Debian. I'm using an HP Evo D510 CMT with a RIVA TNT 2 video
card, Hauppauge PVR-250, and onboard intel audio.
Problems I've had over this year:
Hardware:
* Not a big enough hard drive (60 GB w/ a Windows install of
10GB. Therefore, /video/store is only 40GB. It is not a
dedicated machine. I use it as my desktop pc too.
* Not a fast enough machine for clients. I tested running a
client mythfrontend, and it didn't work too well. The Evo is a
1.7GHz P4: Maybe it was my client or 100mbps network, but I
hooked up a client pc running Debian, and it would skip frames, and the
audio would get choppy. I didn't do much troubleshooting, since I
didn't use the client much
* Live TV wouldn't work at one point until I disconnected power supply for 30 seconds, then booted.
* Difficult to setup 2 audio cards. This was machine
specific, not Myth. I had the intel integrated and a SB Live card, and
would have to alternate headphone jacks when switching between
mplayer-plugin, and mythtv. So I guess operator error. I
had edited the .conf file, but still couldn't get it working exactly
how I wanted.
Software:
*Sometimes unable to delete recordings, and Myth will freeze.
After a reboot it works fine. I think there may be a memory leak
somewhere that may or may not be Myth related.
*Hard to get a client pc connected to run mythfrontend, and run locally as well.
*Trouble with audio capture on one or two installs. I just reinstalled.
Those are some of the bugs that I remember. It may sound like a
lot, but in all I think it is a great setup. Some of the bugs may
be due to my PC. But it is sweet with the commercial
autoskip. I think the best thing to have would be >1TB of
storage. Once (if) Apple comes out with intel Mac Mini's, I'll
get one to be a frontend in my entertainment center. Right now I
just run Myth on the HP in my den.
Sorry for the epistle.
-Ben