MythTV … my beginning

9, Jun, 2009

I’ve always wanted a MythTV setup. The feature list and capabilities are a geek’s dream, and couch potato’s necessity. Looks like I could kill two birds with one stone here. Myself the geek, and The Boss (my girlfriend) being the re-run queen.

It’s not that I’ve never played with MythTV, we just never had a worthwhile tuner. We have a Pinnacle DC30 Pro, and an old Truevision Bravado 1000. These are hardware mjpeg capture cards. Great for capturing home movies, and VHS, not really ideal for continuous TV capture. In the box of spares we also have some non Linux supported hardware mpeg cards (DVexplore chipset). Over the years I’ve used various BT8×8 TV tuners, but could never get the results I wanted out of them.
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