Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?
Ben, I have not checked my card yet to see if this is indeed the situation, or if yours was just a defect in manufacturing, but I will send your email along to the owner of the company that makes the board, for both input to their design/manufacturing process and/or for a replacement board if it is a defect. maddog ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
MythTV Installfest Beta Announcement - March 31st: 10:00 A.M.
Hello, As people on this mailing list may know, we have been talking about having an installation fest for MythTV (www.mythtv.org), a piece of FOSS that allows your PC to act like a TV recorder, photo repository and music repository all in one. We have determined that a lot of people would like to do this, but it currently is fairly technical, has a fair number of decisions and issues that need to be discussed or learned, and as a do-it-yourself-in-the-isolation-of-your-own-home has caused grown men (and women) to gnash their teeth and rent their clothes, often taking more than three days (if ever) to get the installation right. Yesterday we had the .01 release of this MythTV Installation Fest held at The New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, New Hampshire. A full report on this will be coming out in the near future, but we believe that we learned a lot while at the same time getting some people completely through the installation process. We thankfully acknowledge the guidance, expertise and good humor of Jarod Wilson, and the facilities of the New Hampshire Technial Institute (NHTI). We are ready to move on to the Beta copy of this procedure, which will include recommended (if not required) hardware specifications, a recommended ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h required software installation, and the name of your cable supplier. We will also be requiring a web-signup, which will not only help us schedule the time, but make sure that you understand the issues around this project, and that you bring the appropriate hardware and information. More on the requirements and needed information will be forthcoming. However, we have also decided to hold this Beta (open to GNHLUG members and NHTI students on a FCFS basis) on March 31st starting at 1000. I am telling you this now so those of you who are interested in participating at this (still early) stage may reserve March 31st for this effort. If this Beta is successful we will then try opening this up to the general public at a time following March 31st, probably by several weeks to allow time for final tweaking. We will also need time to advertise the offering and have sign-up. We anticipate that the lessons learned from yesterday's .01 event will greatly enhance both the success ratio and shorten the installation time of the software for the Beta on March 31st. I also anticipate that the lessons learned from both yesterday's .01 offering and this upcoming beta may allow us to generate steps to allow MythTV to become mainstream (or at least something that will not be a three-day marathon of frustration). If you are interested in participating in this next stage, please keep March 31st open, and await further details as they unfold. I anticipate that the next announcement will tell people the type of hardware we require, some places to buy that hardware if needed, and the availability of a sign-up sheet so people can indicate their desire to join in the Beta. Warmest regards, maddog ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MythTV Installfest Beta Announcement - March 31st: 10:00 A.M.
I think that would be a great idea and the location is convenient. I've been reading the MythTV mailing list for several months and have been collecting components (and my thoughts). I'd be interested to know what your recommendations would be, particularly for the capture card (PCR-150?) and the output card (NVidia 5200 family??). Any discussion of audio (5.1 and no clue for a card but it would nice if it were bundled into one of the other cards). Are you expecting to use Fedora Core for the distribution? I've been using Ubuntu lately and have been impressed, but I think the MythTV list seems to prefer Fedora. Interestingly it was a GNHLUG meeting, on the Seacoast, where I learned to hack my DirecTiVo, which is still hacked and still running, although a bit long on the tooth. I'll watch the list(s) with interest. GGK Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Hello, As people on this mailing list may know, we have been talking about having an installation fest for MythTV (www.mythtv.org), a piece of FOSS that allows your PC to act like a TV recorder, photo repository and music repository all in one. We have determined that a lot of people would like to do this, but it currently is fairly technical, has a fair number of decisions and issues that need to be discussed or learned, and as a do-it-yourself-in-the-isolation-of-your-own-home has caused grown men (and women) to gnash their teeth and rent their clothes, often taking more than three days (if ever) to get the installation right. Yesterday we had the .01 release of this MythTV Installation Fest held at The New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, New Hampshire. A full report on this will be coming out in the near future, but we believe that we learned a lot while at the same time getting some people completely through the installation process. We thankfully acknowledge the guidance, expertise and good humor of Jarod Wilson, and the facilities of the New Hampshire Technial Institute (NHTI). We are ready to move on to the Beta copy of this procedure, which will include recommended (if not required) hardware specifications, a recommended ^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h required software installation, and the name of your cable supplier. We will also be requiring a web-signup, which will not only help us schedule the time, but make sure that you understand the issues around this project, and that you bring the appropriate hardware and information. More on the requirements and needed information will be forthcoming. However, we have also decided to hold this Beta (open to GNHLUG members and NHTI students on a FCFS basis) on March 31st starting at 1000. I am telling you this now so those of you who are interested in participating at this (still early) stage may reserve March 31st for this effort. If this Beta is successful we will then try opening this up to the general public at a time following March 31st, probably by several weeks to allow time for final tweaking. We will also need time to advertise the offering and have sign-up. We anticipate that the lessons learned from yesterday's .01 event will greatly enhance both the success ratio and shorten the installation time of the software for the Beta on March 31st. I also anticipate that the lessons learned from both yesterday's .01 offering and this upcoming beta may allow us to generate steps to allow MythTV to become mainstream (or at least something that will not be a three-day marathon of frustration). If you are interested in participating in this next stage, please keep March 31st open, and await further details as they unfold. I anticipate that the next announcement will tell people the type of hardware we require, some places to buy that hardware if needed, and the availability of a sign-up sheet so people can indicate their desire to join in the Beta. Warmest regards, maddog ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MythTV Installfest Beta Announcement - March 31st: 10:00 A.M.
Greg, et. al., I've been reading the MythTV mailing list for several months and have been collecting components (and my thoughts). I'd be interested to know what your recommendations would be, particularly for the capture card (PCR-150?) and the output card (NVidia 5200 family??). Any discussion of audio (5.1 and no clue for a card but it would nice if it were bundled into one of the other cards). Are you expecting to use Fedora Core for the distribution? I've been using Ubuntu lately and have been impressed, but I think the MythTV list seems to prefer Fedora. We have been working on this MythTV installathon for some time on the gnhlug organizer's list. I sent out this first announcement to the greater list just to tell people what is going on, and to let them reserve the day of March 31st. All of these questions will be answered (and I can tell you that you are fairly close with your configuration thoughts), but I beg that the list wait for a couple of days for us to tally up the information that we got from the pilot, get the recommendations nailed down, and then send out the recommended systems, distributions, etc. I hope it will mean a better signal-to-noise ratio for the list. If people want to do something different, with different cards, etc. then we can consider that over time. But for right now let's look at an 2N problem rather than an N**2 problem. And of course if people want to discuss this endlessly on the discuss list in the meantime, that is what it is for (I guess), but I think it might be better if people wait a day or two to see what the recommendations are, and why. Warmest regards, maddog ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can other owners of the pcHDTV 5500 confirm their card shares this (ahem) feature? If so, any ideas on improving the attachment, so that a poorly aimed mouse fart won't knock it off the tuner module again? Who's the manufacturer of this card? I'd like to know so I can avoid them... -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?
pcHDTV is the Linux HDTV card. www.pchdtv.com, the only manufacturer I've heard of which released Linux drivers with no Windows drivers. On 3/4/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can other owners of the pcHDTV 5500 confirm their card shares this (ahem) feature? If so, any ideas on improving the attachment, so that a poorly aimed mouse fart won't knock it off the tuner module again? Who's the manufacturer of this card? I'd like to know so I can avoid them... -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?
Also, its one of the few, if not only, HD cards that doesn't look at the broadcast flag. On Mar 4, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: pcHDTV is the Linux HDTV card. www.pchdtv.com, the only manufacturer I've heard of which released Linux drivers with no Windows drivers. On 3/4/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can other owners of the pcHDTV 5500 confirm their card shares this (ahem) feature? If so, any ideas on improving the attachment, so that a poorly aimed mouse fart won't knock it off the tuner module again? Who's the manufacturer of this card? I'd like to know so I can avoid them... -- Seeya, Paul -- Key fingerprint = 1660 FECC 5D21 D286 F853 E808 BB07 9239 53F1 28EE A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- -- Thomas ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
MythTV hardware (was: MythTV Installfest Beta...)
On 3/4/07, Greg Kettmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be interested to know what your recommendations would be ... As maddog said, our InstallFest will have some kind of recommendations/requirements -- a Hardware Compatibility List (HCL), as we say in the pro IT world. The plan is that if you stick to the HCL, you will have good results. If you're looking for minimal frustration and maximum ease-of-use, I suggest waiting for that. That said, not everyone will be attending said event(s), there may be other options than our HCL (which is as much about our own limited resources in not being able to support 50 different cards), and (most of all) this list displays a incorrigible tendency to diverge from stated topic, so here's an attempt to at least mark the discussion with a different Subject line. :) This has been a topic of discussion on gnhlug-discuss over the past couple months; you may want to search the archives for mythtv: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug There is also a GNHLUG webpage: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MythTV ... capture card (PCR-150?) ... Hauppauge has apparently discontinued the PVR-150 card, but continues to put out boxes labeled PVR-150 which instead contain the HVR-1600 card. This wouldn't be such a big deal, except that the PVR-150 works with Linux and the HVR-1600 doesn't. Again, consult the archives. ... output card (NVidia 5200 family??). NVIDIA definitely appears to be the preferred video output device in the Linux world these days. ATI's support for FOSS sucks a lot (NVIDIA's still sucks (binary-only, closed, proprietary drivers), but sucks less than ATI). Intel's stuff is documented, but is slow and targeted at business applications, not consumer multimedia. Any discussion of audio (5.1 and no clue for a card but it would nice if it were bundled into one of the other cards). Audio these days generally divides into one of two categories: - On-board (built in to the motherboard), fair to poor quality - Dedicated audio expansion card (Sound Blaster, et. al.), fair to excellent quality It appears the on-board audio is often good enough for TV. Some video and/or capture cards have sound hardware, but everything I've seen has been 2 channel stereo only. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: pcHDTV 5500 card - Connector comes loose?
On Mar 04, 2007, at 22:03, Travis Roy wrote: Also, its one of the few, if not only, HD cards that doesn't look at the broadcast flag. Erm, sorry, but that's just not correct on multiple levels. The broadcast flag was shot down, and I'm not aware of any cards on the market today that actually have support to look for it, and certainly none of them do anything with said broadcast flag, since it isn't sent by anyone... There are at least a dozen HDTV cards on the market right now that work under Linux and will happily ignore the broadcast flag if it somehow gets resurrected. On Mar 4, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: pcHDTV is the Linux HDTV card. www.pchdtv.com, the only manufacturer I've heard of which released Linux drivers with no Windows drivers. This is also incorrect. They have Windows drivers too (CD image that ships w/the card linked below, not the directory on it containing Windows drivers). But they *are* the only ones who build their cards with Linux in mind, and worry about Linux support before Windows support. http://pchdtv.com/downloads/CD_pcHDTV_2006-v2.0.tar.gz On 3/4/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can other owners of the pcHDTV 5500 confirm their card shares this (ahem) feature? If so, any ideas on improving the attachment, so that a poorly aimed mouse fart won't knock it off the tuner module again? Who's the manufacturer of this card? I'd like to know so I can avoid them... -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
