MythTV hardware list

[Kevin Cozens]

On 13-09-07 05:58 PM, William Muriithi wrote:
> I am aware there are couple of people on the list who have setup a mythTV in
> the past. Never tried, but recently got curious about it and want to jump in.
[snip]
> The place I am not too certain is the hardware.
[snip]
> Actually wonder if its worth assembling or picking something from store
> would do. Will need appropriate slot for TV card though so that may be a
> problem.

I'm using MythTV with an Hauppage PVR-150 which was pre-installed in my HP 
media center desktop computer. It worked well with Ubuntu up to before the 
version where they added Unity. I jumped away from Ubuntu after that.

I had been using 0.22 (or 0.23??) under Ubuntu and it worked great. The 0.25 
version under Linux Mint 14 has a number of minor annoying issues that make 
it slightly better in some ways but worse in a number of other important 
ways to the previous version I used under Ubuntu.

The PVR-150 will only tune the analog TV stations that remain on Rogers 
Cable. Rogers has started the move to all digital and have already dropped 
many stations off their analog line up. You could use MythTV with one of the 
free digital decoder boxes but you would have to find some means to let 
MythTV control the decoder box or else it won't be able to change the 
channels for you to make sure you record the programs you want.

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