On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 08:43:36PM -0600, 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. Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread. Just to give a follow-up, I did get MythTV successfully setup! <slightly-sarcastic> It was actually very easy once I figured out what not to do ;) </slightly-sarcastic> The first time through, I was working with a RH 9 system that had been upgraded via apt-get. This was a problem as gtk+ and another package (i can't remember which) had been upgraded to versions that were incompatible with what was needed to 'apt-get install mythtv-suite'. I made the mistake of trying to rollback to earlier version, which just hosed my system up completely. Second time through, i started with a vanilla RH 9 system -- no upgrades -- and was able to apt-get mythtv and compile the ivtv driver in no time at all. It's cap'ed a few shows already today. In the post install phase, I recommend hacking uninteresting channels out of your *.xmltv file as it does take a very long time to download all that data, and it makes the gui *much* easier to use as you don't have to sift through shows and channels you don't care about. I ended up using these instructions more or less to the letter: http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250 ...with the exception of the first part of the WinTV PVR-250 section as there were no ivtv-kmdl redhat packages for kernel 2.4.20-8. I compiled the ivtv driver instead using "Option 1" from these instructions: http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-view_faq.php?faqId=1#q11 I tried "option 2" listed in those directions, didn't work for me. Hope this helps others who are tempted to install mythtv. As I suspected, MythTV *is* slicker than snot. I've tried out windows alternatives like BeyondTV and found it to be extremely similar to MythTV. Makes me wonder if there isn't some GPL violation going on. -David _______________________________________________ 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