[LUAU] MythTV on Fedora

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Thanks a whole bunch.  Care to help us this Saturday (that is, if you 
live in Oahu--I kept forgetting that this is not just a local forum)?  
The CentOS demo machine at McKinley has nVidia FX5200.  I will try to 
get the Hauppauge 350 and Coax2USB cards.  Wayne

jonr wrote:

> 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
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