Re: [PLUG] Mythtv

["Kevin Ruse" <kmr987@gmail.com>]

On 2/8/07, David Colon <dcolon@dcolon.org> wrote:
> I asked for feedback on Mythtv during last night's meeting but no one
> present had any experience.  I was encouraged to post to the list.

If you are not already, i would highly recommend subscribing to the
mythtv-users mailing list as it extremely active and helpful in
resolving issues.

http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

I don't have an hdtv frontend i'm only running sd using an xbox
frontend. Just some thoughts.

You'll need to have your hdtv frontend hardwired rather than wireless.
I've read n may be able to do it but i don't think the verdict is out.

The hdhomerun seems to be the new favorite hd tuner.

People also seem to have decent results using the core duo mac mini as
a frontend, either booting linux or osx . From what i have read there
may be some issues depending on the resolution of your tv given the
on-board intel graphics card.

A nvidia 5200 or 6200 combined with a processor ~= 3G should be able
to handle hdtv playback with xvmc with a limited process load.
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