Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread Michael T. Dean
Greg Woods wrote: Could you post your init script please? I could, but not without a few disclaimers. ... Not all the commands in the script may really be needed. ... #! /bin/bash # # chkconfig: 2345 9 85 # description: start and stop IVTV services # case "$1" in start) modprobe i

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread Greg Woods
> > Could you post your init script please? I could, but not without a few disclaimers. I don't claim that using this script is the cleanest or best way to do things. Not all the commands in the script may really be needed. And most of all, the commands here may not work on your system because i

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread R. Geoffrey Newbury
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:52:14 -0500, Steve Adeff wrote: >On Friday 04 November 2005 00:20, Greg Woods wrote: >> Same thing again. My ivtv startup script runs the necessary ivtvctl >> commands to make this work. Could you post your init script please? I'm having some difficulty with my 500 and I ha

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-04 Thread Steve Adeff
On Friday 04 November 2005 00:20, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:53 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > > There are an awful lot of postings on the list, mostly from new users, > > about live TV. The fact is that Myth can do live TV, but it is not > > really what Myth is for, and once you be

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 15:53 -0500, Dewey Smolka wrote: > There are an awful lot of postings on the list, mostly from new users, > about live TV. The fact is that Myth can do live TV, but it is not > really what Myth is for, and once you begin to use it, you'll find > live TV less and less relevant

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Carl Fongheiser
On 11/3/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And if you're using composite or S-Video in--instead of thetuner--you're probably better off with 2x150's so you don't have to buythe A/V Cable Set ($14.95 from Hauppauge) for a second Component orS-Video input. They're starting to bundle that

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 11/03/05 18:26, Cory Papenfuss wrote: As far as the computer is concerned, 2x150 or 1x500 doesn't matter. The only thing to consider is whether or not you may make a "small form-factor" mythbox. The small boards don't have many PCI slots. If you have plenty of slots now and in th

RE: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Cory Papenfuss
Wow, thanks for all the quick feedback. I'm leaning toward 2 150's then, that's cheaper than 1 500. The machine will have an Athlon64 3500+ in it, so decoding will never be an issue. As far as the computer is concerned, 2x150 or 1x500 doesn't matter. The only thing to consider is whether or

RE: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Joe Votour
They also have different connectors on the back, which may or may not matter depending on the usage. The PVR-150 has an S-Video input, composite (video) input, a "headphone" jack for audio in, and the IR remote jack. The PVR-150 MCE, because they were designed to either ship with no remote, or th

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Michael T. Dean
C. R. Oldham wrote: Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, IMHO, if it's the 350 you want, you don't really want the 350, but you just don't know it yet. (I have a 350 that I'm using as if it were a 250 or a 150.) Wow, thanks for all the quick feedback. I'm leaning toward 2 150's

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Dewey Smolka
> I'm seeing the PVR-150 advertised as the PVR-150 MCE, for Windows Media > Center--that's not a different card from the PVR-150, is it? > They're the same card, but the MCE has no remote. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://myth

RE: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread C. R. Oldham
Michael T. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And, IMHO, if it's the 350 you want, you don't really want > the 350, but you just don't know it yet. (I have a 350 that > I'm using as if it were a 250 or a 150.) Wow, thanks for all the quick feedback. I'm leaning toward 2 150's then, that's cheap

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Michael T. Dean
CHRIS KOTTING wrote: On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:26:27 -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote I've been lurking for a while and getting ready to build my first mythtv system. It seems like the PVR-500 is a good choice for tuner/decoder cards because of the dual tuners, enabling simultaneous recording and wa

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Dewey Smolka
There are an awful lot of postings on the list, mostly from new users, about live TV. The fact is that Myth can do live TV, but it is not really what Myth is for, and once you begin to use it, you'll find live TV less and less relevant -- it's useful to ensure that the card works, but you don't act

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread CHRIS KOTTING
I'm a Myth newbie, but I've been camping out comparison-shopping the hardware available. What card you want depends on what you are doing. The 150 is the price leader, and gives hardware MPEG-2 encoding. You will be using Myth software for decoding (or your video card, if it has a hardware

Re: [mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread Stefan Malmesjö
> However, it doesn't seem that a lot of people are using > it--preferring instead the PVR-150 or -250. Is there something about the > -500 that I'm not aware of? That depends on what you are aware of. As I understand it, it comes without a remote. /Stefan __

[mythtv-users] Good tuner card?

2005-11-03 Thread C. R. Oldham
Greetings, I've been lurking for a while and getting ready to build my first mythtv system. It seems like the PVR-500 is a good choice for tuner/decoder cards because of the dual tuners, enabling simultaneous recording and watching of live tv. However, it doesn't seem that a lot of people are us