Comments | mledford: MythTV... floored.

mledford

MythTV... floored.

Dec 01, 2004 08:45

You've heard me talk at length about my MythTV box that I have built. Last night I did a small "upgrade" to my setup.

All I have to say is... ^*&#*#! This thing rocks.

So what did I do? I enabled multiple frontends and used a pre-built Mac OS X package that allows me to use my MythTV box on my OS X machine. And the scary part... it works. It ( Read more... )

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icchan December 4 2004, 21:48:44 UTC

I wish I had a vidcap board :(

blackwolfga December 7 2004, 16:43:28 UTC

Does MythTV support HD yet, or how does that work? And how does it look?

I'm still not getting one for ME, because it's really too much hassle (everybody I know who has MythTV says it took them MONTHS to get it working) but some others were asking about it.

It does look cool, with all the stuff it does...But it's pretty darn expensive. (Yes, the software is free, but the hardware is not.)

Yes... mledford December 9 2004, 14:14:46 UTC

Sorry it took so long to reply. I haven't done a lot of research into MythTV and HDTV. One thing I do know... it only works with broadcast signals. As there are no tuner cards, that I am aware of, that work with digital cable boxes or sat boxes.

For that matter, there probably never will be...anyway here is a good link to someone who actually built a MythTV HDTV box. Look at the pictures and drool. I know I did...

http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/

Expensive argument... mledford December 9 2004, 14:26:45 UTC

Actually, I believe that the boxes for TiVo and MythTV come out to be about the same. Sure, there is a lot of time involved and time is money... but what else is more fun to a geek than the challenge of getting something to work ( ... )

Re: Expensive argument... blackwolfga December 9 2004, 15:23:50 UTC

Actually, I do believe that MythTV supports Serial Connections to cable boxes, which means that it can send a signal via the COM port to the digital cable box to change the channel. (My TiVo is capable of the same thing, except it doesn't have the drivers for my Motorola box. I'd have to get around to hacking it and install the drivers onto the Linux box via a hack to do that.) Then what you'd do is just take the straight signal into your capture card.

If I did this, I'd want to get the hardware pretty good so I wouldn't have to upgrade it in a year to get more stuff done. It looks cool and can do a lot, but I keep hearing about the hassles and all that fun stuff. I wish Comcast would actually get the Moxi service on their DVR's, that would get me to tell TiVo byebye...