>>2. Season pass option to be able to search for and record programs by name / >> date / keyword / new or rerun. > > Yes, even customize how MythTV determines reruns > Where do you do this? I didn't see any obvious option in the menu or in the howto.
For shows that are in the nth season (with previous seasons being rerun) I was only wanting to record this season's or the first showing of the episode. I couldn't figure out how to do this so used this time slot but that missed an episode when they had an extra long previous show and pushed its start time back. --- >I think 2 more items that need to be considered is system stability, and >ease of installation. That is a problem with Linux since manufacturers don't want to release information to allow good drivers to be written. I didn't do enough research before buying pieces for my system so had problems. I was wanting to use one machine for backend, frontend, and general use as my new main computer. I got a Asus A8V Deluxe with Athlon 64 3000, PVR 150, ATI 9550 & 9200 SE graphics and Fedora Core 3. Also had an old WinTV Bt878 video card to use as second tuner. The MythTV install, setting up guide etc. took a little while with reading some howtos -- it wasn't too bad but not trivial either. The PVR 150 support at the time wasn't usable. From the mailing list the progress looks good on the driver but I haven't had time to try again. For the ATI cards the TV out doesn't work with the open source driver and the ATI driver is not very good. If you use the video overlay on the second screen to get good TV performance it leaves a colored band of junk across the main screen so you can't use the computer if somebody else is watching TV through myth. I can't get the driver to work with the two cards at once. The original intent was to have myth on the 9200 and two screen on the main card for PC use. Buying a PVR350 probably would have solved the problems above (was more expensive and I thought the other solution would work). I also had the PC lock up solid a couple times at the start or end of a recording. With kernel upgrades etc. I haven't seen it recently (reruns have also reduced the frequency of recording though). The WinTV had a high frequency noise tone in its output (19KHz?) that the motherboard audio was splattering all across the low frequencies so was annoying at the default sample rate. I found that if I set the sample rate to 48 KHz it would not get splattered across the spectrum and at the high frequency it isn't audable. I assume this was another driver problem. These are all more generic Linux problems than MythTV problems but hurts the MythTV experience. I also have had the mythfrontend die several times with invalid free errors. The backend seems pretty stable. The only serious problem I had with it was the daylight savings time bug that caused the program guide to be an hour off which was fixed pretty quickly although I lost one recording due to it. I did verify the hardware I bought worked under XP but didn't try windows PVR software.
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