I am also a MythTV Love-Hater. I have a Gentoo MythTV setup with 2 DVB-T tuner cards. I find that there are many, many crashes which wreck some recordings, but after being beaten around I still come back because of the really great benefits that MythTV provides such as the ability to watch recordings at up 2x speed without people sounding like chipmonks. Which means that I can watch the 30 min news in 10 minutes!
I have a 1.3GHz Pentium Celeron computer as the myth box and I use XvMC in playback and I find that ck kernel sources are great for a Myth box. With my 1.3GHz computer, I'm able to compile a kernel, transcode 2 shows and watch recording at 1.8x speed without any jitter with the ck-kernel! Which all comes to a load factor of 10-15. I'm eventually going to try using V-Server patched against ck-sources so that I can use single MythTV backends for each tuner which I hope will improve the stability of MythTV. I also had some latency problems with the 2 DVB cards. So I had to do some major tweaking of PCI latency values, PCI card shuffling as well as trying different DMA modes for the hard drives. One last thing, LVM is essential for a MythTV setup because you run out of disk space FAST! A 200G drive is not much for a MythTV box so you would probably need another 200G drive soon after. LVM allows you to make a virtual super large drive out of two physical drives. Also I'm sorry that I used Reiserfs for MythTV partition. I'm in the process of moving my recordings to a tweaked Ext3 partition. ... On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thursday 19 January 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I was thinking that my desktop is not being used anymore and I have > > seen a theatre setup at a friends place and I could easily recycle > > the computer and buy a data projector to do this. > > > > There are a couple of requirements that I am unsure of: > > - system would need a remote for ease of use for guests > > - How do you run a play station through a computer? > > > > Regarding data projectors, anything to watch out for? Is second > > hand worth it? > > > > For digital recording is mythtv the way to go? > > Does it transfer well to a low spec laptop for viewing? > > Does it work with the "evil empire" computers? > > mythtv, like thunderbird, is delightfully full of promise, but not so > good in the gritty detail. > myth works, and the user interface is streets better than any > commercial PVRs that I've looked at eg Toshiba, although Humax looks > to be better. > > It does not transfer to low-spec view platform, easier to have low > spec server. EG I cannot watch HD with P4-3G + GT6600, only SD. > > It does NOT work with the borg's toys. > > Several friends use Xp media center to run DVB stuff, all have the > occasional hang, freeze, etc. None has managed a multi-tuner setup. > > I know of no other solution that *works* (other than myth) ie you can > *see* DVB with some tools, but not stuff you'd leave your wife to do! > > Michael Fox has had some success with myth, ask him to summarise ... > > James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
