KnoppMyth on a 320G drive

[Colin McGregor]

--- Tim Writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 
> > --- Merv Curley <mervc-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
[snip]
> > I currently have an article on KnoppMyth awaiting
> > publication, that just focuses on 
> > installation/configuration.
> 
> I'm not a huge fan of KnoppMyth. IMO, it saves you
> some time up front (by
> simplifying the installation) but you give up
> flexibility and admin is more
> difficult over the long term. YMMV.

The article was for Tux Magazine, so it had to be a
simple install or it wasn't going to be published.
There is NO way I could have sold my editor on a
MythTV install under say Debian... crass realities
intrude on writing...

> [snip]
> 
> > As for picture quality, both boxes look quite
> good. If
> > I were betting I would be looking at issues like
> > quality of cable TV connection, and other cable
> > related issues.
> 
> I agree (assuming the box has sufficient horse power
> for software
> decoding).

True, do NOT try MythTV with any Pentium II (or older)
CPU. Many Pentium 3 CPUs are not a realistic choice
MythTV...

> Cable/connector quality, for example, can make a
> _big_ difference. I use a
> regular (NTSC) TV with composite (RCA) input
> together with a (relatively
> low end) nVidia card with TV-out. The nVidia card
> has only S-Video for
> TV-out but comes with an S-Video to RCA converter.
> With this connector, my
> picture was black and white. Replacing the nVidia
> connector with a high
> quality S-Video to RCA cable gave me good quality
> colour (as good as can be
> expected with NTSC).

Yes, some in Europe joke (not without reason) that
NTSC stands for "Never Twice Same Colour".

[snip]

Colin McGregor

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