On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 20:44 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On 7/4/05, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > And I did. :-) > > > > > > BTW, what's ppl here using for a frontend as a Media Player Box for a > > > Home Ent. PC? > > > > > > I played with Freevo and quite OK with it, but myth has lots more > > > features built in. :-) (which is why I'm looking at it) > > > > Obviously MythTV for me. We run it in two houses, have three tuners > > and 3 dedicated frontend only machine. All PCs can run it also. > > > Well, I'm evaluating it because I also want to be able to record in the > future. But in the meantime, I prefer to be able to also view normal > DVD/AVI/RMVB etc files.
Sure - I understand wanting it simple now bu having the capabilities in the future. Makes sense. > > BTW, talking about tuner cards, am I mistaken to think that 3 tuners = 3 > connections and 3 diff channels at the same time? I take it this is > free-to-air TV instead of Pay-TV eg: Dish/Cable etc? (which would > otherwise restrict the viewer to 1 channel per instance. unless they get > more set-top boxes?) Exactly right. Actually it's two tuners in my house - a PVR-250 and a PVR-150 running with ivtv from their sight. Works much better than what's available through portage but still has a number of issues. It's getting quite good though. In my dad's house I set up a PVR-150 so they can only record one show at a time. The tuner cards only tune channels 1-125 I think. This works for over the air or analog cable. I don't do it but the PVR cards have SVideo inputs and can be tied into an SVideo output from a settop box so that there are some mechanisms for recording whatever the box you tie it to will output. I think most of the boxes will output digital cable over SVideo but not over 1394. Again, I do none of this so I could hae it completely wrong. Also, should you want to record from your settop box then you also need to control its tuner. I think there are ways to do this with some boxes but I haven't bothered trying yet. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
