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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Warwick Poole wrote:
> Does anyone out there have a working Linux PVR? Either Myth or Freevo.
> I have given up a few times trying to get Myth installed on an old
> Compaq PIII with a Hauppage WinTV-PVR 350 installed. I even tried with
> Knoppmyth but that still didnt provide a working machine. It did provide
> hours of entertainment trying to get it to work though. Curious if
> anyone has got a solid setup, especially if you hacked it together with
> Fedora Core 2.
I had a working Mythtv test install running for months on my primary
workstation. I believe I started at version 0.11, and the latest version
was 0.14. I had no trouble setting it up... I just pointed my debian box
at their apt source and there wasn't much else to it.
I will bet you will have much better luck with your PVR350 than I had with
my cheap ATI BTTV card I had laying around. The tuner on it is a POS, and
it picks up much more static than any of the TV's in the house. The card
looks just fine through composite though, so I imagine a cheap card is
fine if you are using a cable box with an IR blaster. I also had
brightness issues with this card that I was unable to correct.
I stopped running Myth because I moved, and the cable here is very noisy.
The tuner card multiplies the static, so most channels are no longer worth
watching.
Pat
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