See comments below On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:45, Charles Howse wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > I know this has been discussed here before, but I have just spent about 1.5 > hrs searching the list archives (no hits for "PVR"), Google'ing, readiing > HOWTO's, and getting utterly confused, so I will beg forgiveness, and ask the > list. > > My problem: > I want to install a PVR on this computer without fubar'ing my current setup. not a huge problem > > My requirements: > Watch live TV, record while I'm away, watch recorded shows. > No need to record and watch live TV at the same time. > FM Radio and Internet Radio would be nice, but not necessary. > Prefer not to do a kernel compile, but this is not out of the question. > Prefer not to spend over $50 US on TV card. > Can't afford any extra hardware. a $50 tuner card... The best I've seen that works universally well is the win250-pvr card from Haugpauge just over $100. > > This computer - PIII 600, 512 MB ram. Dual-booting Win XP Pro and FC1. > [root@moe root]# uname -a > Linux moe 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 > GNU/Linux > KDE 3.2 > No TV Tuner/Video Capture card yet. > > My confusion: > After reading http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.2, it looks > like it's not too difficult, and I see there is yum support, but I'd like > some reassurance. :-) > Has anyone installed MythTV on a system similar to mine, if so, how did it go? > What about additional drivers for ALSA, lirc, capture cards, etc? > Is my hardware good enough for what I want to do? > Your hardware should work ok. What video card do you have? It's as easy as installing ATrpms rpm and typing yum install mythsuite Check out the mythtv mailing list as well, it's pretty active. > Any other comments would be welcome. > MythTV is really nice... I just finished setting up a HTPC in a D-Vine 5 case.. Love it. >
