MythTV and capture drivers for FC/RHL, rpms, HOWTOs and lists

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 06:46:00PM -0400, duncan brown wrote:
> > about myth tv, i'm looking to get my 5 year old a new computer (her's is
> > an aging pII 300 (first gen, made in 97 i think) and it has an EXCELLENT
> > tv out.  now, i've read that mythtv and freevo need something like a
> > 1.8ghz box to work correctly, is that still true?
> 
> Quoting from the VDR project, a PVR project similar to MythTV/freevo
> centered around DVB capture cards, a 200MHz PC is enough! For
> MythTV/freevo which are a bit more feature rich I would estimate a
> higher lower bound. I also depends on whether you want to have
> (optional) near to real time MPEG4 transcoding and so on.

yeah, if your capture card is already ouputing mpeg-2 (dvb or a hauppuage 
pvr250 or similar) then of course encoding in software isn't required.
 
> > has anyone gottenthem to run on a lower end box?  (she can do
> > capture on her computer now under windows without problems after i
> > enabled dma) otherwise it'll be just a divx/ogg box, but there are
> > worse things to havein the living room =]
> > 
> > -d
> > 
> > Axel Thimm said:
> > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 05:03:04PM -0400, Matt Morgan wrote:
> > >> [snip]
> > >> On 04/07/2004 04:04 PM, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> > >> >If your video card is an ATIRadeon 8xxx or 9xxx series card ATI's
> > >> drivers will work (TV out and all).  I'm using an ATI 9200 with
> > >> Mythtv  (LOVE IT!)  output display's fine on the TV, and using ATrpms
> > >> site for the YUM repository, it's as simple as yum install
> > >> mythtv-suite.  They also have a great fedora-core HOW-TO at
> > >> mythtv.org.
> > >
> > >> I looked and couldn't find that fedora core how-to. Lots of great docs
> > >>  though. If you could point me straight to the fedora doc, I'd
> > >> appreciate  it. Thanks.
> > >
> > > Here are some links:
> > >
> > > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
> > > http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/install.html
> > >
> > > Any comments on mythtv itself, or the packaging of it are best posted at
> > > the relevant lists. For you embarking into the pleasent journey of
> > > runing a PVR on Linux I suggest the following lists:
> > >
> > > o ATrpms user list (packaging or Fedora Core/Red Hat Linux related):
> > >   http://lists.atrpms.net/mailman/listinfo/atrpms-users
> > > o MythTV user list (non-packaging, non-drivers issues):
> > >   http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users/
> > > o ivtv user list (non-packaging issues about PVR x50):
> > >   http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=73219
> > > o v4l list for bttv/saa7134/cx88 drivers
> > >   https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
> > > o DVB drivers
> > >   http://www.linuxtv.org/mailinglists/linux-dvb/
> > >
> > > Enjoy! :)
> > 
> > 
> > -+(duncan brown
> > -+(duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
> > -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net
> > 
> > Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy
> > evidence of the fact.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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