On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:43, david.blevins at visi.com wrote: > Anyone have any experience with MythTV? Likes/dislikes? Any other > solutions you like better? > > I'm primarily interested in building collections of shows to burn to > dvd later. Just purchased an ATI AIW 9000 Pro, which I'd have to > return as they are not supported. The program seems to be slicker > than snot, but would love some user feedback before I start tearing my > system appart and purchasing new hardware specifically for this > purpose. MythTV is awesome. It works great for me, with a basic (bt878) WinTV GO/Duron 1.1ghz setup. For some reason when I changed from a duron 900mhz and kernel 2.4 to the duron 1.1ghz and kernel 2.6, software MPEG4 encode seems to take no measurable amount of CPU time anymore. It used to eat 40%-50%. It certainly doesn't seem to slow down the system anymore, yet it is recording stuff. Weird. Only thing I wish for is disconnected operation. I wish I could mirror everything onto a secondary backend or something and take it to a friends house. Right now I just moved everything to a dedicated box which I can take with. Which means nothing gets recorded when I'm away. ;P There's third party tools to re-encode to avi's. But I wish I could do it without re-encoding. Apparently you can talk mencoder into re-muxing from MythTV's .nuv format to avi, but I've seen no easy to use front end that does it. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list