Michael Gargiullo wrote:
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:10, Charles Howse wrote:I installed it on a P4 2.4GHz {running at 2.8} with 1GB DDR with and ASUS
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On Monday 19 April 2004 09:49 am, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Am Mo, den 19.04.2004 schrieb Charles Howse um 15:45:Yes, I've been reading that page. It's what scared me! :-))
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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?
Any other comments would be welcome.
Thanks in advance!
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
Follow it step by step and it works beautifully!
9800 Video Suite {video capture not supported in current kernel} and an
AverMedia PVR capture card, I also have 2 ATA133 controlers with 6
7200RPM/8MB drives, with a combined capacity over 520GB. It took a bit
of juggling to get atrpms installed and my machine completely updated, but
once that was done I installed mythtv then mythtv-suite without any problems.
After setting up MySQL I installed webmin {with apt} then created a mysql
user for my logon account and gave the account full permissions. I then found
mc.sql and setup the initial db. Next, IIRC, I ran mythtvsetup. After that I ran
the mythfilldatabase or what ever it was called, created the spool directory I put
in the setup, started the backend with 'sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/mtyhbackend start'.
Next I put the lircd.conf.avermedia98 config in /etc/lircd.conf and started lircd.
Then I started mythfrontend, and it pretty much all worked.
The only probelm I had was the AverMedia remote did not work, but I didn't
have time to figure out why. Maybe I should have run mythtvsetup again,
because it complained that it couldn't connect to lirc. Or it could be lirc needs
to be configured to find the remote on the capture card {guess}.
I did a test, and recorded about half an hour of a tv show at 640x480-2.2M mpeg4 video with 48k mp3 audio, and while watching TV my load was at 0.30. For some reason I set the "High Quality" to 8Mbit but the settings didn't seem to hold.
This is great software, especially if you have a fast machine. :-) If you don't have a fast machine, look at getting one of those Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 or WinTV-PVR-350 cards. I'm going to check them out and see if a M1000 mini-atx board will handle two tuners.
Later...
