[vox] mythtv anyone?

[Micah Cowan]

Harold Lee wrote:
> Wes Hardaker wrote:
>> Anyone in town set up a mythtv box yet?  I have a Tivo series one that
>> I likely need to replace in the near future and I'm looking at doing a
>> myth solution instead...  I think the software install doesn't look
>> too bad, assuming you have the right hardware.  It's picking the
>> hardware that looks more tricky ;-)
>>
>> Anyone done it?  Do ya like it?  Want a visitor in your livingroom for
>> a demo?  (heh)
>>
>>   
> About 3 years ago I set up a MythTV box with dual-tuners. Pretty easy to 
> set up, and nice to use. I got the really cheap tuner cards with no 
> hardware encoding, which was kind of a pain. I think it was an Athlon 
> 2500+ system with 512 MB of RAM. It could record and play at some low 
> (but watchable) quality just fine. But my recommendation would be to go 
> for at least one tuner with hardware encoding to save your CPU.
> 
> Sorry - I don't have it set up anymore, or I'd be happy to demo it. I'm 
> sure MythTV has come a long way since then.
> 
> We left it running all the time, and scheduling works great. With dual 
> tuners it knows how to split jobs between tuners correctly so that you 
> can record 2 programs at once, or record one and watch live TV.

Thanks for that.

I'd be particularly interested to know what people have used for casing. 
Also, what IR equipment/remotes people have had experience with.

BTW, what was the second tuner for: picture-in-picture? Or is there 
another use?

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