Re: Getting started w/ MythTV

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
"Thomas Charron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/MythTV+Architecture+Overview which is part of > a larger document at http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/MythTV+Architecture > > Some applications will go directly to the MySQL database running on the > master backend, but most

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV

2006-11-09 Thread Randy Edwards
> with an explanation as to which tuners get used in which priority, In the "mythtv-setup" program where you set up the tuners, you can give each tuner a priority (it's called something different) for recording. Myth can be quirky in its handling of multiple tuners when combined with liv

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/MythTV+Architecture+Overview which is part of a larger document at http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/cs427/MythTV+ArchitectureSome applications will go directly to the MySQL database running on the master backend, but mostly, communications takes place via a TCP socket.  Thomas

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Lussier
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The cost diference between, say, >> the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based >> encoders. > > That's what I expected, but it's confusing as hell. Their marketing > depar

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-09 Thread Thomas Charron
On 11/8/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Happauge cards are generally a safe bet, as nearly all of them with the exeption> of the 'WinTV' cards are supported.  Now I'm more confused.  Pretty much *all* of their products appearto have "WinTV" in the name.  ???  :-)   My bad.  I was referin

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Ben Scott
On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The cost diference between, say, the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based encoders. That's what I expected, but it's confusing as hell. Their marketing department needs to work on product differentiation on their

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On 11/8/06, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Lussier writes:> So, for these 2 systems, can someone give me a rough list of the> essential-to-have hardware and the cost analysis?Or you could just buy a pre-built system. http://www.monolithmc.com/Courtesy of Google Ads (note, I haven'

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Dave Johnson
Paul Lussier writes: > So, for these 2 systems, can someone give me a rough list of the > essential-to-have hardware and the cost analysis? > > My main goal here is ease of installation/configuration and minimizing > as much as possible hardware incompatibility frustration. I.e., if > there's a c

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Thomas Charron
  The higher end PVR cards will work with MythTV and work well with nearly all major brand motherboards out there.  The cost diference between, say, the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based encoders.  A 600 Mhz machine can easily recoder 2 channels when a dual input board

Re: Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Randy Edwards
> I'd like a back-end server with lots of disk space and maybe 2 or 3 > capture cards that I can stuff somewhere out of site, There are a variety of tuner cards available for Myth now. To me, multiple cards are about mandatory, even if you don't watch much TV. I love the PVR-500 (2 tuners

Getting started w/ MythTV [was Re: Tivo vs MythTV]

2006-11-08 Thread Paul Lussier
This has been a very interesting and informative thread, thanks for the education! I've been "on-the-fence" wrt Tivo for several years now. I've always loved the idea, but just never gotten around to getting one. I thought about setting up MythTV, but at the time it sounded like it something yo