MythTV installfest...

[Colin McGregor]

I was talking to some of the PlanetGeek (http://www.planetgeek.ca/)
people last Sunday about my favorite hardware eating piece of free
software, MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/). In summary, MythTV allows
you to turn a PC into a Personal Video Recorder (PVR), with more bells
and whistles than anything Bell or Rogers offer. What I was hearing
from the PlanetGeek folks was that while they are sold on free
software (they install Ubuntu Linux on the PCs they give away at a
local food bank) the one person in the group who had tried doing a
MythTV set-up had run into issues...

So, I suggested to the PlanetGeek folks the idea of doing a MythTV
installfest, a get together of people who have installed / configured
MythTV with some people who want to get MythTV up and running on their
PCs. This would be a variation on something I did a few years ago:

http://tlug.ss.org/wiki/InstallFest_-_November_4%2C_2006

There were at least two PlanetGeek people who expressed strong
interest in an Installfest.

I do have a (very?) tentative location for an installfest lined up in
the east end of the city (one that has a bus and streetcar stop almost
at the front door). The software is of course free, but people will
have to come up with the hardware to support MythTV, which means:

For analog TV:

- PIII 750 MHz (or better) PC
- 1 GB RAM (or better)
- 40 GB hard drive (preferably much more)
- 1 or more Linux supported TV analog tuner cards.
- A Linux supported hardware accelerated video card.

For HD TV:

- P4 3.2 GHz (or better) PC
- 1.5 GB RAM (or better)
- 250 GB hard drive (preferably much more)
- 1 or more Linux supported TV digital tuner cards.
- A Linux supported hardware accelerated video card.

I am helping to maintain a wiki page that notes GTA centric issues
associate with MythTV: http://tlug.ss.org/wiki/MythTV

Key question is, how much general interest would there be in an event
like this?

Thoughts?



Colin McGregor
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