Comments on: MythTV — Like TiVO w/no subscription! http://jacob.steenhagen.us/blog/2005/11/mythtv-like-tivo-wno-subscription/ A blog by Jacob Steenhagen Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:30:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Nick McCoy http://jacob.steenhagen.us/blog/2005/11/mythtv-like-tivo-wno-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-1746 Nick McCoy Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:55:40 +0000 http://www.steenhagen.us/~jake/blog/?p=67#comment-1746 Yeah, I've got it. I set it up last year after Christmas. It took a couple months of tinkering to get it running real good. Then, last weekend I bought a second encoder card so that it can record two channels at once. Now, its back to tinkering for a while. I've got a PVR-350 and now a PVR-150. It looks like my P3 500 Mhz processor will be able to handle it. Those encoder cards are real workhorses. I don't use the live TV because of the channel changing speed. Instead I just watch live TV with my TV. I just read that changing the file system might improve channel changing. I use the Knoppmyth distribution. http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html The really nice thing about this is the forum and wiki, which have tons of advice and very helpful people. The setup in Jarod's guide is close to what most of the developers have so it helps sometimes. Anyways, there was a change to the auto-expire system a while ago and it caused the auto-expire to fail and prevent new recordings if the files got corrupted. I fixed that bug. Yeah, I’ve got it. I set it up last year after Christmas. It took a couple months of tinkering to get it running real good. Then, last weekend I bought a second encoder card so that it can record two channels at once. Now, its back to tinkering for a while.

I’ve got a PVR-350 and now a PVR-150. It looks like my P3 500 Mhz processor will be able to handle it. Those encoder cards are real workhorses.

I don’t use the live TV because of the channel changing speed. Instead I just watch live TV with my TV. I just read that changing the file system might improve channel changing.

I use the Knoppmyth distribution. http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
The really nice thing about this is the forum and wiki, which have tons of advice and very helpful people. The setup in Jarod’s guide is close to what most of the developers have so it helps sometimes.

Anyways, there was a change to the auto-expire system a while ago and it caused the auto-expire to fail and prevent new recordings if the files got corrupted. I fixed that bug.

]]> By: Jennifer McCoy http://jacob.steenhagen.us/blog/2005/11/mythtv-like-tivo-wno-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-1740 Jennifer McCoy Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:33:22 +0000 http://www.steenhagen.us/~jake/blog/?p=67#comment-1740 Hey Jacob, how's it going? I think Nick has myth TV. You might want to ask him about it. He fiddles with it a lot and fixed a bug that it had. Hey Jacob, how’s it going?

I think Nick has myth TV. You might want to ask him about it. He fiddles with it a lot and fixed a bug that it had.

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