In a message dated 10/22/2005 8:35:10 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
craigwhite@azapple.com writes:
>to me the thing that makes it most usable is the ability to network and
>get the schedules automatically as the myth controls give you a
>selection guide - somewhat like channel 62 on Cox but this allows you to
>easily select what to record
I don't have cable or satellite, so I'm not chasing a show across 500
channels. I don't need to stream shows over a network. All I need is minimal
VCR-style functionality.
Basically, there are three PVR-specific features I like:
-No rewinds
-Store a lot on the drive without having to replace tapes
-Saves money over buying another VCR, which will only be made like crap and
not last anyway (my last one lasted barely two years)
>Personally - I think that using a back end without hardware processing
>is a very low performance thing and likely to cause disenchantment but
>it does work, it just consumes the processing power
I've done it before, as mentioned, under Windows. The reason I'm looking to
Linux is that the Windows-based solution the cards come with is more of a
"passive" thing... it sits in the bottom of the screen and you have to bring its
menu up to schedule recordings or watch them. It's therefore too complicated
for the USER. I also hoped that it might add a bit of performance, enough to
push from "80 percent reliable" to 100 percent reliable recordings.
>I'm not aware of it, you could possibly do this with a front end but it
>would seem impossible to do as a backend system.
Uggh. I think the whole front-end back-end thing is a way of saying "mythtv
is massive overkill for a single-station system with low needs." It seems
like I'm supposed to build a "TV server" which does the recording and streaming
to front ends located elsewhere.
If there were a shell around the simplistic scheduler app that came with the
card, I'd use that.
>not foolproof - lots of help from list and some good guides
I meant the user interface, is it beyond the comprehension of nontechnical
users?
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