[ILUG] mythtv, debian, etc

[Dermot Daly]

Hi Brendan,
I picked up a Tevion TV Card in Aldi for 49.99. I noticed last week they
were still selling them.
They are based on a Philips Chipset (saa7134), and with slight
midification, I got the video4linux driver to work with it. (I haven't
got around to sending the updates to the maintainer yet though)

Unfortunately this is all I have done to date.  I didn't get the remote
to work, but this was out of lack of investigation.

I believe the Hauppage cards fully work, but if you are looking at a
cheapo card for investigation, this is worth a look.

Incidentally, www.freevo.org is also worth a look - I believe that this
may be more advanced than mythtv.

Good luck, and I'd be interested in hearing how you get on.
Cheers,
Dermot.
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 08:25, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> I'm going to try building up a MythTV box, and was wondering what sort of 
> success any of you have had thus far.  I saw the notes from the beginning 
> of the year, so I know it's something that's being hacked on.  I'll be 
> hooking it up to the NTL digital cable box.
> 
> I'm curious about the choice of OS (Debian stable/unstable vs SuSE or
> RedHat or KnoppixMyth, ...), and how any of you have come up with small
> quiet boxes to do this.  No raging fans in the corner of the livingroom.
> :)  For tuner card, Hauppauge PVR-250 vs 350 vs ... ?  Cheapest place for
> it?  and on and on... heh.
> 
> Feel free to respond off the list and I'll summarize later what I've 
> found/done.
>  
> B
> 
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> Brendan Kehoe                                               brendan at zen.org
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