[LUAU] MythTV on Fedora

[jonr]

Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:
> Aloha all, I am interested in testing out MPEG-2 encoder/decoder and/or 
> pcHDTV tuner cards (such as Hauppauge PVR-250 / PVR-350) on the CentOS 
> machina at McKinley.  At the present time, it appears that the best 
> package for this is the MythTV project:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/
> 
> (There are live MythTV CDs for turning your PC into a TiVo-like machine, 
> but I am interested in installing the MythTV into Fedora Core.)  I am 
> wondering if anyone ever used the Hauppauge card hands-on, especially 
> the ones with a coaxial-to-USB 2.0 connection?  Anyway, if you are 
> interested, please contact Michael or hop in this Saturday.  Mahalo.  Wayne
> 
> 

The PVR 250 has no tv-out and no FM tuner, the 350 has both of these but 
  does not have accelerated X, so no games. There is a 150 and a 500 the 
500 has dual tuners on the card, they are actually two 150's on one 
card. These cards do not do HDTV so you will need a HDTV card, the 
Air2PC card is more sensitive to OTA(OverTheAir) broadcasts so it is 
considered the better card of the ones that are out there.

I have not used the Hauppauge Coax2USB but I am running a 350 with an 
nvidia 5200 doing TV-Out and can say that Myth rocks! I use xine so I 
can have the DVD menus, I can rip my DVD's just by simply pressing a 
button. I have scheduled recordings and have not watched LiveTV for a 
couple months. I bought a All4One remote control and an IR blaster then 
using one instance of lirc to have myth change channels on my cable box.

The best HowTo is located here www.wilsonet.com, Jarod uses FC1-2-3 but 
only 3 is being updated at this time. He is also on the myth mailing 
list and answers questions frequently.

Hope that helps,

Jon