MythTV installfest...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:06:54AM -0500, Colin McGregor wrote:
> 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.

For HD recordings I use a 4250HD box from rogers connected by firewire.
Putting up an antenna for ATSC reception is not practical for me. :)

> - 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?

No idea.  A lot of getting mythtv setup involves getting the tuner setup
done right, and doing that anywhere other than your final location may
be very inconvinient.

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Len Sorensen
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