Anybody out there have a Linux Personal Video Recorder, or is anybody working on one? Any links or advice?
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 10:43 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
Anybody out there have a Linux Personal Video Recorder, or is anybody working on one? Any links or advice? _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
-- I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me know if you need more information. Brad
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me know if you need more information.
What hardware are you using? Is the serial port control an alternative to using an IR transmitter from the PC to control the cable box? Any particular challanges?
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 14:25 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me know if you need more information.
What hardware are you using? Is the serial port control an alternative to using an IR transmitter from the PC to control the cable box? Any particular challanges?
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-- I am using a Celeron 2.4 Gig CPU, Audigy 2 sound card, GForce 4 video card for TV out and a PVR250 for capture. This is all standard hardware and recommended by Jarod's how-to. Since it is not fully functional yet I am still testing with coax into the tuner card, but will switch that to RCA for better quality signal when it goes 'live' (the box has to be wife-friendly before it can be used :) ). Yes, serial port control of the cable box is an alternative to an IR blaster which is slow. Whether or not you can do this depends upon the model of your cable box and whether or not the cable company has the serial port active. I have a motorola dc2xxx series and depending upon the firmware, these may or may not work. I plan on converting this box to a dedicated backend with another capture card to grab signal from another cable box and then have a frontend with multiple TV out cards to feed two TV's. That way I can either watch 2 separate shows on 2 different TV's or watch one show and record another. MythTV also has a module for your phone so CID pops up, has built in VOIP capabilities, weather, news, DVD's, music, games, and some sort of Xbox interface that I have not yet played with. Brad
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
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I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me know if you need more information.
Brad
I too am using the same website guide but I picked up two WinTV Go Cards because everywhere I read it seemed like those were good ones to use but I can't get the tuners to work. They are using the bt878 chip. Anybody have any luck with them. If there is an easier card maybe I can ebay them. I had started out with one of the pvr's some new one pvr100 or pvr150 I got at Microcenter. It also had couldn't get the tuner to work and it also as i read wouldn't do closed captioning. I have had better luck on linux with my old ati all-in-wonder as far as tuners go but you can't use it with myth i believe. Adrian
I think part of the problem with your experience is that the WinTV GO cards don't usually use the driver that you specified. The usually use either the cx88 driver or the ivtv driver. In fact, most of the cards made by hauppauge use the ivtv driver. Closed captioning is available by the latest ivtv drivers. The problem is that the v4l specification was made without taking in account of some of the hardware that is available today (not to the fault of the original developers). v4l2 is a work in progress to address some of these issues, but still some issues remain. I have built a PVR using a PVR-350 from hauppauge using mythtv on a Fedora Core 3 box that I am quite happy with. I don't feel like expouding on much past that at this point unless someone has some more specific questions (due to the plentiful resources elsewhere one can take advantage of). On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Adrian Gordinier wrote:
On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote:
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I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me know if you need more information.
Brad
I too am using the same website guide but I picked up two WinTV Go Cards because everywhere I read it seemed like those were good ones to use but I can't get the tuners to work. They are using the bt878 chip. Anybody have any luck with them. If there is an easier card maybe I can ebay them. I had started out with one of the pvr's some new one pvr100 or pvr150 I got at Microcenter. It also had couldn't get the tuner to work and it also as i read wouldn't do closed captioning. I have had better luck on linux with my old ati all-in-wonder as far as tuners go but you can't use it with myth i believe.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adrian Gordinier wrote: | On Thursday 23 December 2004 12:22 pm, Brad wrote: | |>-- |> |>I have a MythTV box about 90% functional. I am just working through |>getting the IR receiver and serial port control of my cable box going. |>MyhtTV is a really nice setup. I built it on Fedora Core 3 and followed |>Jarod Wilson's guide at http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php. Let me |>know if you need more information. |> |>Brad | | ----------------------------------------------- | | I too am using the same website guide but I picked up two WinTV Go Cards | because everywhere I read it seemed like those were good ones to use but I | can't get the tuners to work. They are using the bt878 chip. Anybody have any | luck with them. If there is an easier card maybe I can ebay them. I had | started out with one of the pvr's some new one pvr100 or pvr150 I got at | Microcenter. It also had couldn't get the tuner to work and it also as i read | wouldn't do closed captioning. I have had better luck on linux with my old | ati all-in-wonder as far as tuners go but you can't use it with myth i | believe. | | Adrian I use a WinTV Go with the bt878 kernel driver. It works pretty well. You also need the I2C driver and I2C bit-banging driver. Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBzf6ZE5xXU3JS1mQRAkbLAKCTUvUmzrTjztqZyICP2VR1bVWumwCfU/n4 +SRjfBIrINyajlX/+nhTf3M= =Lq3s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Thu, December 23, 2004 11:25 pm, Adrian Gordinier said:
I have had better luck on linux with my old ati all-in-wonder as far as tuners go but you can't use it with myth i believe.
Correct. The ATI AIW display+capture cards aren't supported with the bttv driver, but with the gatos driver. I have one of these (ATI 7500 AIW), but never got the video capture working in linux. I also have an ATI TV Wonder PCI, which does work with the bttv driver. I haven't had much time lately to play with it though. Jeremy -- Jeremy Turner <jeremy@linuxwebguy.com> Linux Tips and News! ---> http://linuxwebguy.com
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:36 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote:
Correct. The ATI AIW display+capture cards aren't supported with the bttv driver, but with the gatos driver. I have one of these (ATI 7500 AIW), but never got the video capture working in linux. I also have an ATI TV Wonder PCI, which does work with the bttv driver. I haven't had much time lately to play with it though.
I made the mistake of thinking I could use one of these without a monitor, only a TV, and I don't believe I ever got as far as getting the TV Out working.
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