Linux PVR

[jon.moss at cnonline.net]

Thank you very much for the hardware details.  I've been watching on ebay
for the last couple of days trying to see what's going for what.  I would
really like to watch a demonstration, so please keep us informed.

Thanks - Jon

> I just started building my PVR box the other night.  I have an ATI
> Radeon 7000 video card, Sound Blaster Live Value for sound and 2 Video
> Capture cards.  I believe both cards are supported by Linux.  The first
> is an older (1997) STB TV and FM Radio card and the other is a I/O Magic
> DR-PCTV100 that is really a relabelled Pinnacle PCTV card.  I have a
> 3Com 10/100 NIC and a 40 GB Hard drive.  Motherboard has BX chipset,
> 384MB RAM and P III-500.  I think this should be powerfull enough for
> video capture, but I may run into speed problems if I want to watch one
> show and record another or watch with picture-in-picture.
>
> I started the RedHat 9 install the other night and came back to it late
> last night when it came time to identify the hardware.  My video, NIC
> and soundcard were recognized and set up automatically.  I am going to
> install Apt-RPM from freshrpms.net before I get any further.  Someone is
> linked to from the mythtv.org site that has built RPMs for the MythTV
> install.  I thought I'd try that before building the whole mess myself.
>   If that doesn't work I'll build the necessary files from source or
> multiple RPMs.
>
> I'll let everyone how it's going from the various steps.  I may do a
> presentation at the end of the build when I've got it working.
> Brian
>