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Yeah, except for those vigilante administrators who don't seem to care what policy says, only about throwing their weight around.

This can be a problem if you're an obvs. good faith contributor who gets blocked without warning (one example of many). Where's the oversight here? How can these guys not realize that this kind of raw, unquestionable autocracy can only further damage Wikipedia's already suffering goodwill?

The way myth selects inputs (in my case) is based on your Zap2it listings. If you're not in the US YMMV.

In theory if your STB has firewire output you can capture the hidef stream from that, as long as it's unencrypted. If you do that you'll need a pretty meaty system to decode. Nvidia based video card, that sort of thing.

If you haven't been digging there already check out:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users /

Lots of good info there. I don't know how far along you are, but if you are not to the point of having loaded the OS you may take a look at KnoppMyth. Not cutting edge but *very* nice compared to rolling your own. OTOH, if you want to do specialized stuff (my myth box also runs Asterisk) you'll be be doing your own build.

My apologies, I didn't see that you mentioned a fix. I can definately see how a non-fullscreen module (mplayer, xine, etc?) could still show MythTV in the background. However, the poor picture quality could easily be caused by IVTV (as you suggested). IVTV can be a pain when you get into setting it up.. firmware revisions, kernel versions, and driver versions all have to be just right. For anyone experiencing problems, the mythtv-users archives are the best place to start

After rereading your post a couple of times, I think I see what you meant by "can't get myth without drivers"; if the drivers don't work, Myth doesn't work. Gotcha. =)

I felt the same as you do for several weeks and I also consider myself pretty well acquainted with linux. And, contrary to some of the testimonials I'm reading, KnoppMyth did not do it for me and my pcHDTV 3000 card.

Now I'm in pretty good shape with a simple, single broadcast tuner system. I'm not using MythGame, MythFlix, or MythPhone but I am using MythStream, have all the other modules working whether I'll use some of them or not, and have only one significant bug to squash (for which I _do_ have leads) before I would declare my setup perfect for open source.

If I could put my finger on one key to success, I would say documentation. I blew away the KnoppMyth and installed Fedora 4 because a guy who has used various versions of MythTV with various versions of Fedora has the best documentation I found on the net. But not _comprehensive_ documentation. All-in-all, I have an expandible two-ring cover binding about an inch of hints, tips and other documentation printed single- and double-sided. Whether that is encouraging or discouraging depends upon the reader I guess. It _can_ be done. Some key links from my bookmarks:

http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#hw
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/tips.php
http://www.irblaster.info/
http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html
http://yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMySQL.ht ml
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/User_Manual:D aily_Use
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/mythtv-users @mythtv.org/1654163.html
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users /170450

Very savvy consumers will hack together ["PC-TV hybrid"] setups themselves.

Yes, we are indeed building them ourselves. However, we are doing so primarily because we can't find what we want on sale anywhere for any price. The below is an adapted version of a recent Usenet post of mine describing what I have come to daily take for granted with my high-definition MythTV setup:
------------
. . . MythTV works, and works well, for those who are interested in a "HD TiVo" without any of TiVo's limitations. I must admit to chuckling whenever I see a question in alt.tv.tech.hdtv or elsewhere asking how to record from a HD video source with a computer in terms that make it clear the poster and the respondents view the task as something akin to cavemen discovering fire.

I work long, long hours and, when I get home, often don't have any more energy left to do more than want to just relax in front of the tube. When I do so, I want to have as much choice in what to watch as possible. Let me tell one and all of what I with 100% reliability do with my MythTV setup every day:

• Push a button on the remote[1] to wake the 47" 1080p[2] LCD panel[3] from its DPMS slumber.
• Pick from a gigantic library[4] of high-definition programs that MythTV constantly adds to[5] based on my choices.[6]
• While playing the program, rewind, fast-forward, and jump to arbitrary points as desired. I can also adjust the playback speed anywhere from 0.5X to 2X without affecting audio pitch.[7]
• I can push a button to instantly and accurately skip over commercials.[8] If I've gone too far, another button will skip me back to the previous spot.
• If I exit a recording, the next time I watch it the playback will continue where I left off.[9]
• If I ever need to restart MythTV, pushing a button on my remote twice within three seconds will cause it to do so.[10]
• If I want, I can run MythTV on my MacBook and watch the exact same programs[11] with the exact same elegant and attractive user interface.[12]
• All this time, MythTV is silently recording yet more for me to watch.[13]

If any of this intrigues you, I recommend visiting:

• The MythTV Wiki and the mythtv-users mailing list archive, the two largest repositories of MythTV knowledge.
• The terrific Fedora Core-based installation guide I used.
• A well-regarded MythTV reference design for those who want to either buy it off the shelf from the vendor or build it themselves. I'm neither a customer nor an employee; all I did for my own setup was buy a Sony Pentium 4 system on sale at Fry's then add the video card, ATSC capture card, gigabit Ethernet card, remote, and NAS. However, in retrospect, there's something to be said for buying at once all the parts except the NAS in one convenient, already-integrated form.

[1] Home Theater Master MX-500 universal remote. I programmed it using a $30 infrared keyboard/mouse combo.

[2] MythTV does an *excellent* job of deinterlacing 1080i recordings into 1080p for those displays that can handle it. Any Nvidia video card from the FX5200 to the present will work.

[3] Westinghouse LVM-47W1. Under $2500 from Crutchfield for 1080p LCD goodness.

[4] MythTV tells me that I have "242 programs, using 1.7 TB (427 hrs 33 mins) out of 1.8 TB (54 GB fr

Very savvy consumers will hack together ["PC-TV hybrid"] setups themselves.

Yes, we are indeed building them ourselves. However, we are doing so primarily because we can't find what we want on sale anywhere for any price. The below is an adapted version of a recent Usenet post of mine describing what I have come to daily take for granted with my high-definition MythTV setup:
------------
. . . MythTV works, and works well, for those who are interested in a "HD TiVo" without any of TiVo's limitations. I must admit to chuckling whenever I see a question in alt.tv.tech.hdtv or elsewhere asking how to record from a HD video source with a computer in terms that make it clear the poster and the respondents view the task as something akin to cavemen discovering fire.

I work long, long hours and, when I get home, often don't have any more energy left to do more than want to just relax in front of the tube. When I do so, I want to have as much choice in what to watch as possible. Let me tell one and all of what I with 100% reliability do with my MythTV setup every day:

• Push a button on the remote[1] to wake the 47" 1080p[2] LCD panel[3] from its DPMS slumber.
• Pick from a gigantic library[4] of high-definition programs that MythTV constantly adds to[5] based on my choices.[6]
• While playing the program, rewind, fast-forward, and jump to arbitrary points as desired. I can also adjust the playback speed anywhere from 0.5X to 2X without affecting audio pitch.[7]
• I can push a button to instantly and accurately skip over commercials.[8] If I've gone too far, another button will skip me back to the previous spot.
• If I exit a recording, the next time I watch it the playback will continue where I left off.[9]
• If I ever need to restart MythTV, pushing a button on my remote twice within three seconds will cause it to do so.[10]
• If I want, I can run MythTV on my MacBook and watch the exact same programs[11] with the exact same elegant and attractive user interface.[12]
• All this time, MythTV is silently recording yet more for me to watch.[13]

If any of this intrigues you, I recommend visiting:

• The MythTV Wiki and the mythtv-users mailing list archive, the two largest repositories of MythTV knowledge.
• The terrific Fedora Core-based installation guide I used.
• A well-regarded MythTV reference design for those who want to either buy it off the shelf from the vendor or build it themselves. I'm neither a customer nor an employee; all I did for my own setup was buy a Sony Pentium 4 system on sale at Fry's then add the video card, ATSC capture card, gigabit Ethernet card, remote, and NAS. However, in retrospect, there's something to be said for buying at once all the parts except the NAS in one convenient, already-integrated form.

[1] Home Theater Master MX-500 universal remote. I programmed it using a $30 infrared keyboard/mouse combo.

[2] MythTV does an *excellent* job of deinterlacing 1080i recordings into 1080p for those displays that can handle it. Any Nvidia video card from the FX5200 to the present will work.

[3] Westinghouse LVM-47W1. Under $2500 from Crutchfield for 1080p LCD goodness.

[4] MythTV tells me that I have "242 programs, using 1.7 TB (427 hrs 33 mins) out of 1.8 TB (54 GB fr

Very savvy consumers will hack together ["PC-TV hybrid"] setups themselves.

Yes, we are indeed building them ourselves. However, we are doing so primarily because we can't find what we want on sale anywhere for any price. The below is an adapted version of a recent Usenet post of mine describing what I have come to daily take for granted with my high-definition MythTV setup:
------------
. . . MythTV works, and works well, for those who are interested in a "HD TiVo" without any of TiVo's limitations. I must admit to chuckling whenever I see a question in alt.tv.tech.hdtv or elsewhere asking how to record from a HD video source with a computer in terms that make it clear the poster and the respondents view the task as something akin to cavemen discovering fire.

I work long, long hours and, when I get home, often don't have any more energy left to do more than want to just relax in front of the tube. When I do so, I want to have as much choice in what to watch as possible. Let me tell one and all of what I with 100% reliability do with my MythTV setup every day:

• Push a button on the remote[1] to wake the 47" 1080p[2] LCD panel[3] from its DPMS slumber.
• Pick from a gigantic library[4] of high-definition programs that MythTV constantly adds to[5] based on my choices.[6]
• While playing the program, rewind, fast-forward, and jump to arbitrary points as desired. I can also adjust the playback speed anywhere from 0.5X to 2X without affecting audio pitch.[7]
• I can push a button to instantly and accurately skip over commercials.[8] If I've gone too far, another button will skip me back to the previous spot.
• If I exit a recording, the next time I watch it the playback will continue where I left off.[9]
• If I ever need to restart MythTV, pushing a button on my remote twice within three seconds will cause it to do so.[10]
• If I want, I can run MythTV on my MacBook and watch the exact same programs[11] with the exact same elegant and attractive user interface.[12]
• All this time, MythTV is silently recording yet more for me to watch.[13]

If any of this intrigues you, I recommend visiting:

• The MythTV Wiki and the mythtv-users mailing list archive, the two largest repositories of MythTV knowledge.
• The terrific Fedora Core-based installation guide I used.
• A well-regarded MythTV reference design for those who want to either buy it off the shelf from the vendor or build it themselves. I'm neither a customer nor an employee; all I did for my own setup was buy a Sony Pentium 4 system on sale at Fry's then add the video card, ATSC capture card, gigabit Ethernet card, remote, and NAS. However, in retrospect, there's something to be said for buying at once all the parts except the NAS in one convenient, already-integrated form.

[1] Home Theater Master MX-500 universal remote. I programmed it using a $30 infrared keyboard/mouse combo.

[2] MythTV does an *excellent* job of deinterlacing 1080i recordings into 1080p for those displays that can handle it. Any Nvidia video card from the FX5200 to the present will work.

[3] Westinghouse LVM-47W1. Under $2500 from Crutchfield for 1080p LCD goodness.

[4] MythTV tells me that I have "242 programs, using 1.7 TB (427 hrs 33 mins) out of 1.8 TB (54 GB fr

Here are some mirrors!

http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg /d364afd75f736cf7
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel /0603.3/2627.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114 386596009004&w=2
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel /635456#635456

There we go!

I've thrice previously posted on Slashdot regarding my MythTV experiences. This comment should be read in context. (The main changes are that 0.19 has indeed fixed the OSD and the skipping-tuner issues. Everything else, both good and bad, I mentioned still hold true today. I *think* the newest KnoppMyth release actually now supports SATA drives, although I'll bet USB keyboards and mice are still considered suspect. I still disagree with the Pavlovian suggestion of MythTV--as we've once again seen in this thread--without appropriate caveats to anyone asking for an easy-to-use MythTV setup.)

Since the most-recent posting focused on the negative, I'll focus on the positive today. Thanks to MythTV and about $1100 in parts (not including $2150 for a 2TB NAS), I have a more-or-less reliable, elegant-looking (both hardware- and interfacewise) video recorder that:

* Simultaneously records from two cable boxes and one over-the-air tuner card, all in HDTV.
* Gives me easy access to my recorded programs in alphabetic and record-date form, with multiple sort and grouping options (all the "How I Met Your Mother" episodes get grouped under that heading, for example), and due to a well-designed MySQL backend, no slowdowns no matter how big my library gets. (Any TiVo owner knows just how stupendously slow their boxes can get with a few hundred hours' worth of storage.)
* Gives me easy access to my AVI library in nicely-organized form based on the directory tree.
* Premarks programs recorded on non commercial-free channels with appropriate cues so that I can manually (or automatically) skip whole ad blocks with one button. (Tip: For North American viewers, "Logo Detection" alone is probably the best choice for commercial detection. It's faster and has fewer false positives than "All.")

My job requires long hours. I often fall asleep exhausted on the sofa soon after arriving home while trying to relax by watching the TV. But when I'm awake, it's nice to know that at any time I have about 200 programs or about 340 hours' worth of Hollywood movies, dramas, and comedies, almost all in HD, to enjoy. That's worth the money and setup time in my book.

Others have said good things in general (XFS,JFS,ext3).

I looked into filesystem comparisons in setting up a MythTV box.

My issues were:
(1) efficient use of hard drive space, and
(2) performance.

Efficient use = filesystem settings have a big effect on amount of usable space.

For ext2/3:

-m 0 = setting 'reserved space for root' to 0%. Default is 5%, which can be 10-20 GB these days, all unusable to non-root users

-T ____ = can tell ext2/3 to optimize inodes and byte-per-inode for different size average files. Largefile versus news spools (tons of small files). Because of the way that a file can be spread out and mapped across the filesystem, this has an effect on 'wasted' space, and maybe performance (# of inode entries per file to lookup).

-b, -i - can set total # of inodes and bytes-per-inode directly. Advanced control over filesystem creation

I never got around to looking into this detail for XFS/JFS - they seem have fewer such options.

Performance I'll leave it to others to talk about filesystem performance with largefiles in general.

MythTV takes a lot of writing, and as it turns out, deleting, of large temporary files for the TV features (records, pause, FF/RR). After some reading online, I've found MythTV performance is drastically impacted by filesystem choice due to all of the deleting.

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss 24.2

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users /52672 ---SNIP---

> My last reply to myself. Based on a Googled reference, I was able to
> break my XFS 4G file size barrier by formatting the partition 'mkfs.xfs
> -dagsize=4g'. So, here are the complete results:
>
> Time to delete a 10G file, fastest to slowest:
>
> JFS: 0.9s, 0.9s
> XFS: 1.3s
> EXT3: 1.4s, 2.3s
> EXT2: 1.6s
> REISERFS: 6.2s
> EXT3 -T largefile4: 5.9s, 10.2s
>
> After running the XFS test, there didn't seem to be any point in
> reformatting the partition again, so I left it on XFS, but I think I
> would be happy with JFS, XFS, or EXT3 w/o '-T largefile4'.
>>>>
wepprop at sbcglobal
Feb 8, 2004, 2:33 AM
Post #21 of 22 (4121 views)
Re: Changing filesystems? [In reply to]
Robert Kulagowski wrote:

> Interesting. If others care to weigh in, I can either re-write the
> "Advanced Partitioning" section in the HOWTO, or whack it completely.
>
> William, can you give some background on the hardware used for your
> tests? I'd be curious if this data holds up across various drive types,
> LVM, etc. (Without trying to exhaustively test all the possibilities,
> that is)

It appears, based on my personal experience alone, that file deletes are
the only system operations that can stress the hard drive enough to
produce dropped frames. Unfortunately, as others have pointed out,
recordings and deletions go together in Myth. So, unusual as it may be,
it does make at least some sense to take file deletion performance into
account when deciding which filesystem to use for a video partition,
especially for people with multiple tuners.

The really ironic result from my personal perspective is that it would
appear that using the '-T largefile4' setting for ext3, which I was so
pleased with because it give me an extra 2G of storage, may well have
been responsible for all those recordings I had ruined by frame drops.

Assuming it works out, though, I could really get to like this XFS
filesystem because it appears to give me slightly more storage space
than ext3 w/ '-T largefile4' did and it has pretty fast deletes as well.
---SNIP---

This thread proves once again that Slashdot needs a (-1, Cheapskate that won't ever buy anything their mommies don't give them the money for, but will whine endlessly for it to be free anyway) rating.

Ahem. I bought a Series 1 TiVo box in June 2000, later upgraded it myself to 200GB (the absolute most space available at the time), and happily bought a lifetime subscription. (The sort of idiots here who whine and complain about the horrible, awful TiVo subscription fee has always been around and always will; please ignore them.) However, five years later my box sits in the closet. In part it's because a drive died, but it's mostly because, yes, I built a MythTV box.

I *didn't* built a MythTV box because of:

* The subscription fee. See above. I always felt I got way more than my money's worth from TiVo; heck, were I to sell my box on eBay it'd still be worth a few hundred dollars due to the lifetime subscription.
* A desire to export TiVo recordings to elsewhere. I never quite understood the fascination people had and have with decrypting TiVo's file system and exporting programs to elsewhere. If anything I wanted my TiVo to act as the portal through which I could view my video library.

I built a MythTV box because I wanted to:

* Bring programs *into* the box, not out of it. MythTV lets me view all my videos and DVD images in a nice, neat, format that resembles the directory hierarchy they are stored in.
* Record HDTV programs. Thanks to two cable boxes and two FireWire cables, I can today record two HD programs simultaneously.
* Have plenty of storage space. MPEG-2 HD programs take 7GB/hour. about 10 times more than TiVo's about 700MB/GB on the lowest-quality standard. With MythTV I can use NFS (or, in my case due to mysterious performance issues, Samba) to put all the recordings I want on my 2.8TB RAID 5 array. From the description it sounds like the Series 3 TiVo will have an Ethernet jack, but a) it's likely to be 100Mbps--likely to be problematic in real-life conditions when recording two HD programs and watching a third at the same time--and b) who knows what type of external storage the box will ever support in practice.

That's it. No, I really don't care about MythTV's themability (Why, oh why, do people focus on themes in free software so much? Don't they realize that 99% of them look eye-meltingly awful--Kids, raytracing is, like, *so* 1995--and don't do a thing to fix any underlying usability issues with the application?), MythWeather, MythGame, MythPhone, etc., etc. Hey, they're nice, but I'd give them up in a flash to fix the last niggling bugs in mythfrontend (Geez, folks, what *is* up with the "displaying OSD in some recordings consistently crashes mythfrontend" bug in 0.18.1? Linus used to call such issues "brown bag" bugs, as in bugs in Linux kernel releases so showstoppingly bad he wanted to wear a brown bag for letting it loose into the world.) and the annoyances (some pretty colossal) in MythVideo's Video Manager module. If TiVo Series 3 manages to robustly support external filesystems (I have *no* problems with some sort of encryption scheme here) *and* let me view my preexisting videos through the elegant TiVo interface, I'm there. (Especially if TiVo kindly offers us longtime lifetime-subscription owners free upgrades.) I am, however, not waiting for these things to occur; there's TV to watch, and record, today.

In actual fact, it is bullshit. The RIAA's contractors do NOT verify the information provided by supernodes.

The trouble is, supernodes can and do lie to you, as evidenced by... well... all the fake files and spam out there, and the RIAA themselves are contracting people to do this; interesting enough, theirs and the MPAA's aren't the only one, and there seem to be supernodes on some networks that actively target people who do lots of searches, or in certain netblocks, and return bogus results.

So being as they make no attempt whatsoever to verify the authenticity of the information gathered by, essentially network hearsay on a network where you know some people are deliberately lying, that does call the quality of the evidence into severe question; particularly, where those "screenshots" really came from and if they actually have any relevance.

Fuck Creative Labs. Doesn't any one make cards that can do hardware mixing any more?

Dmix won't be good enough until it also works for applications using snd-pcm-oss's /dev/dsp emulation.

which is possibly easier to follow here: http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/567 376

While I agree with everything you said (except that you imply that Sender-ID might actually work, when it doesn't) it's important to distinguish between SPF and Sender-ID.

SPFv1 is an anti-forgery system that works. It does not claim do anything whatsoever to stop spam . But, preventing forgery is necessary before you CAN do anything to stop spam (think about it).

SenderID, AKA SPFv2(pra) is an attempt by Microsoft to seize control over an open standard (SPFv1) so that they can control who gets to send email and who doesn't. They claim it prevents forgery (but it doesn't) and that it does not break some forms of forwarding the way SPF does (they lie) and that it is open (actually, they've submarine-patented parts of it) and that it is an anti-spam measure (which it wouldn't be even if it worked).

Once someone really understands these two facts, all becomes clear. The 800-pound gorilla is beating its chest and waving its tiny pecker around, hoping you will be either be afraid enough to adopt MS-controlled SenderID, or outraged enough to not adopt open, useful SPFv1.

For more information you might want to read some SPF-discuss list threads.

"And all the solutions that are really a Linux or Windows PC in a smaller box had the same problem: they crash."

More on-topic: there is a lucid comparison between Tivo and MythTV on the Myth mailing list here.

pcHDTV 3000 from here

Air2PC from here or here

2. When you're ready, build a computer for MythTV. Use this guide, look here for HDTV tips, and ask questions on this mailing list. You can also search for answers on the mailing list archive.

3. You say that Myth isn't all you want. I think you're wrong. Here's what it can do:

It can record analog content from cable, satellite, and over-the-air broadcasts.

It can record digital content from over-the-air broadcasts, including HDTV.

It can record unencrypted digital content over firewire from some digital cable boxes.

Using free tools that come with MythTV, you can cut commercials and export any recording from MythTV to a number of different formats, including Divx, Xvid, VCD, SVCD, and DVD.

4. Here's what it can't do:

Myth can't record encrypted digital content from digital cable or digital satellite. Keep in mind that no PC-based solution can do this. The only possible ways to do record content from these sources in digital format are to use a black-box solution (usually) provided by the cable or satellite company or to put on your black hacker hat and crack the encryption. If you choose the former, odds are slim and none that you will be able to export the recordings.

pcHDTV 3000
This card is the successor to the original pcHDTV 2000. Its chipset allows you to record either standard over-the-air NTSC or digital over-the-air ATSC. I believe that drivers are in the works to allow you to record unencrypted QAM channels from digital cable.

Air2PC
This newer card allows you to record digital over-the-air ATSC. It allows you to record unencrypted QAM channels from digital cable.

From what I've heard, there's no clear winner for which of these two cards is better. The pcHDTV 3000 can be purchased at the pcHDTV web site for $189. The Air2PC is on sale here for $169. If you plan to purchase, do so before July 2005. After that date, it's questionable at best whether they will still be sold.

Search the MythTV user group mailing list archives for more information about these cards and support in MythTV.

I've been putting together a MythTV box. I don't know the answers, but get involved in the mailing lists. (See the bottom of this page http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInfo.)

Other useful references:
http://www.mythtv.info/ (MythTV wiki)
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users / (mailing list archive)
http://www.mythtv.org/

It has all this already.
http://www.mythtv.org/
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users /

Another Linux-based PVR will allow you to record HD. The catch is that it only records HD over-the-air (OTA) broadcasts. So if you live in an area with HD broadcasts (at the least, most major metro areas in the U.S.), and you have an antenna, you can have an HD-capable MythTV PVR.

The card is the pcHDTV 3000, available at http://www.pchdtv.com/.

The MythTV web site is http://mythtv.org.

For info about HD and MythTV, search the MythTV mailing list archive for "hdtv" or "pcHDTV".

Finally, a step-by-step install guide for MythTV is available here.

Since no one can seem to follow the link HD-3000 I will paste the relevent portion here:

Q: Will the HD-3000 let me watch HD cable?

A: Shortly yes, but right now no. pcHDTV has the micro code that is used
for decode cable signals. This is what prevented the HD-2000 from
allowing users to watch HD cable - the HD-2000 card does support QAM,
but pcHDTV was not able to get the micro code, but this still could
happen, but don't hold your breath. -- Someone could /guess/ the micro
code but good luck because you'll need it.

Also, just because you can decode the HD cable does not mean you can
watch it. You can only watch unencrypted cable. If cable providers
decide to encrypt signals and then sell special set top boxes that know
how to decrypt that signal you'll not be able to watch it with the
HD-3000 card. Whether your cable provider sends plan old QAM or
encrypted QAM varries greatly. Call your cable provider to know for
sure (But be aware that the customer service person may just tell you
yes because that's what they would assume...) Also, only some channels
could be encrypted and others may not be.

In some markets you could have 0% encrypted, in others it could be 100%.
Nation wide it's around 70% not 30% is from people I have spoken with.

As for when the HD-3000 card will have QAM support, my personal
guess (And it is a guess) would be 1-2 months.

Chop

Not such an original idea after all.

Oops... check out this link too: MythTV Users List discussion on HDTV support

There are also IRC channels (#mythtv and #mythtv-users on Freenode) and very active and helpful mailing lists to ask for help if you get stuck (at some point or another, you will!).

They've already said on the mythtv-users list that they're providing their own listings service for Australia and will be allowing any MythTV users to use it.

The whole licencing thing for this product has been discussed at length on the Myth-Users list (have a look at the whole thread). Most of the developers are reasonably happy with the state of affairs with the exception that most commented it'd be nice if they made more of a mention of MythTV in their documentation and publicity.

The company in question have also said that they will be contributing back (some of) their code shortly.

Andrew Jamieson who works for the company in question posted to the mythtv list today and they have the full intention of being GPL compilent (if they're not already!).

According to the email, the developer sent a message to Issac (lead developer for Myth) and I'm assuming that they're going to be working together to make Myth a better product.

Don't listen to the 'tards, this is good for Mythtv.

--Ajay

There was a large thread about this recently on the mythtv user's forum.

I did RTFA (albeit after making the initial post), and discovered that the guy really shouldn't be bashing MythTV.

First of all, he didn't order the correct hardware. Had he checked out the MythTV e-mail list archives (here), he would have found that there were people who had to cut their Pundit cases in order to accomodate two PVR-250 cards, and thus might have considered that he might have problems with the fit of his DVD drive (search term, "Pundit", page 5).

Then, even further, he didn't read the manual that came with his hard drive and CD-ROM on how to set the jumpers.

As for his problems with the floppy, well, I can understand that. That would probably drive me nuts, but he could have signed up for the MythTV e-mail list, or checked the archives again.

He never made it past the install of Fedora, never mind getting to MythTV. Therefore, he has absolutely NO right to bash MythTV! The Linux installation, maybe. Did you RTFA?

Now then, I'll agree that it's possible that the step-by-step instructions might not work for everybody, usually if there's problems, you can post on the MythTV e-mail list. In fact, that's where Jarod compiled the instructions from, lots of people on the MythTV list (as well as other information from the net). Lots of people have reported success following Jarod's instructions, and the people that do have problems usually get up and running after some questions on the e-mail list.

-- Joe

That's where I found out about the case. It seems to be popular with MythTC users.

In any case, it certianly *looks* better than the iWill case.

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--diva