Comments | pecosdave: w00t! w00t! I got MythTV working!

pecosdave

w00t! w00t! I got MythTV working!

Jan 31, 2006 10:54

Now all I need is a TV card that isn't crappy. I've tested time shifting and recording just fine. Unfortunately if it's recording it's playing on my speakers, and I don't have another system to dedicate to this function with a fast enough CPU so it has to be on this one. DVRs were never so cheap.

mythtv, hardware

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celticess January 31 2006, 21:53:30 UTC

How good is the picture on the monitor? Nick basically talked me out of getting a Hauppage pvr-150 card pointing out the quality is really crappy unless your watching tv on an HDTV or something.

pecosdave January 31 2006, 23:29:53 UTC

To give an honest answer wouldn't be fair to the program. ( See earlier post) The cable around here isn't the greatest and my TV card has issues. The Hauppage TV/FM that I had in my old system stolen in the great heist of August 04 was better.

Here's a screen shot set it to your current resolution for the best idea of how it looks, I'm at 1600x1200, and it is full screen. The horizontal interlacing really doesn't show while the image is moving, you're going to get that nearly any time you do a screen shot of normal analog TV on a computer, reguardless of source. The vertical fuzzy bars are because my TV card is crappy. I'm going to get a new ome sometime soon.

To fairly answer your question ( ... )