[mythtv-gta]: A MythTV building workshop?

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, aaron <memoryguy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:55, R. G. Newbury <newbury-Q6Ug6qEURudg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea. Would also be useful to do the same (maybe in
>> parallel) with Mythdora. There arr differences between Ubuntu based and
>> Fedora based distros that can be highlighted plus some discussion of apt-get
>> v yum setups. And dependency resolution for when things go wrong. (What?
>> Something go wrong? What could go wrong?)
>
> I build from source on Slackware... is there a workshop for me? ;-)

Not yet anyway :-) .

> This sounds interesting. I'd like to go but it's far from me so I
> might have trouble getting there. Keep us posted when it is and I'll
> try to see if I can make it.
>
>>
>> And I would add, at a minimum, if you can get one, an ATSC based tuner
>> preferably USB style (Hauppauge HVR-950 would be good) and maybe the loan of
>> an HDHomeRun. You might need an RF amp and some splitters, plus some coax
>> cables. And amp and speakers....Some really good HD on a separate drive
>> (/video!) and a pre-configured mythconverg db for 'show and tell'.
>
> I feel fairly comfortable with Myth... at least with my own
> configuration... but I know I want to upgrade eventually. I'm
> capturing from two PVR-250s, outputting via VGA from a GeForce4 440MX
> (anyone else remember when that was the "recommended" card for Myth?
> :) ). I know things have moved along quite a bit in the six years
> since I built my system...

Oh, that is dated. When I wrote about MythTV in the fall of 2005
(http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8658) the PVR-150 was out and the
recommended video card was the GeForce 5200... Yes, you should be
looking at some upgrades :-) .

Colin.

> aaron
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