Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-21 Thread Nicholas McCoy
I like the knoppmyth approach to hardware compatibility. In thier forum (http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/index.php) they have a hardware recommendation section. Its broken into three subsections, those that work out of the box, those that work with some adjustments and those that don't work no m

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-20 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
Brad Templeton wrote: >That it's a hard challenge however does not mean it's not a worthwhile one. >With MythTV, we could write up a description of a standardized box, dictating >the video card, capture cards, motherboard chipset and linux distro and saying, >"Here, if you buy exactly this hardwar

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-20 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 09:35:51PM -0500, J. Donavan Stanley wrote: > Don't take all of the above to mean it's all been sweetness and sunshine > here in Stanley manner. I've had my share of headaches, but my > headaches have come from experimentation and me doing boneheaded things > to one or more

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: >But I will concur with Brad: Donovan? What you runnin'? :-) > > My first installs were all nForce2 (Chaintech 7NIF2) boards running FC2. Which did have drivers issues and the like due to having to run old nVidia drivers. Since those initial builds, I've moved over to

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:54:32PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 03:57:57PM -0500, J. Donavan Stanley wrote: > > Well in my case I had zero issues, I built the driver, installed it as > > was ready to go (aside from my setting Myth to /dev/video0 instead of > > /dev/dtv0 at

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Jonathan Watmough
Think again, HDTV works ... and works well. Admittedly the pcHDTV drivers are tricky to get working, but once working, and with some tweaking, my Athlon 64 3000+-based box makes a pretty good pvr. Actualy I think MythTv is the first open source app that I've ever really dug into and made a bit bet

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 03:57:57PM -0500, J. Donavan Stanley wrote: > Well in my case I had zero issues, I built the driver, installed it as > was ready to go (aside from my setting Myth to /dev/video0 instead of > /dev/dtv0 at first). Then again, from day one I've done my homework and > not tried

FW: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas M. Pluth
-Original Message- From: Thomas M. Pluth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:20 PM To: 'Brad Templeton' Subject: RE: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth This guys post was totally useless. He disparages MythTV, yet offers no explanation of what kind of pr

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
Brad Templeton wrote: >On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:20:13AM -0800, Thomas M. Pluth wrote: > > >>I'll second that. HDTV works well on my setup. >> >> > >Sure, and I have HDTV working too. He was a bit overbearing saying >it doesn't work. But it is true that it took a lot of work to get >i

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:20:13AM -0800, Thomas M. Pluth wrote: > I'll second that. HDTV works well on my setup. Sure, and I have HDTV working too. He was a bit overbearing saying it doesn't work. But it is true that it took a lot of work to get it going, and I know that's true for a lot of

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Ben Walding
Steven wrote: The one burning question I have is simple: WHERE IS THE BUG TRACKER? http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/ __ Thanks, can I suggest that it also be placed on the main page in the left nav. As it stands it's only in a status update half way down the front page, and in a how to guide (based

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Steven
The one burning question I have is simple: WHERE IS THE BUG TRACKER? http://www.mythtv.org/bugs/ ___ mythtv-dev mailing list mythtv-dev@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev

RE: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Thomas M. Pluth
I'll second that. HDTV works well on my setup. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Donavan Stanley Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 6:42 PM To: Development of mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-19 Thread Ben Walding
Keith C wrote: A while ago I posted asking if anybody had mythtv - DVICO - HDTV working, and received no replies. The bottom line is HDTV on myth does not work. I won't say that getting mythtv was easy by any stretch of the imagination; but I'm pretty much there with DTV (HDTV is still choppy f

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-18 Thread J. Donavan Stanley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >A while ago I posted asking if anybody had mythtv - DVICO - HDTV >working, and received no replies. > >The bottom line is HDTV on myth does not work. > >Winders + Fusion drivers works well on THIS machine >Last night I tried kaxtv on THIS machine and it works nearly as we

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-18 Thread Keith C
A while ago I posted asking if anybody had mythtv - DVICO - HDTV working, and received no replies. The bottom line is HDTV on myth does not work. Works for me. Winders + Fusion drivers works well on THIS machine Last night I tried kaxtv on THIS machine and it works nearly as well as Winders. Mytht

Re: [mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-18 Thread Micah F. Galizia
On Sat, 2005-19-03 at 10:02 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I'm a linux zelot. I recruited two mates and we all used mythtv (0.16, > 0.17 CVS). I lost the first one some weeks ago, then yesterday ... > > > I was really surprised at how far in front Windows was and, sadly, I think > > I

[mythtv] Whats wrong with myth

2005-03-18 Thread jam
Hi I'm a linux zelot. I recruited two mates and we all used mythtv (0.16, 0.17 CVS). I lost the first one some weeks ago, then yesterday ... > I was really surprised at how far in front Windows was and, sadly, I think I > will go with a stand-alone Windows box for my home. A while ago I posted