I tried to setup myth about 4 years ago. I could never get it working. I was using an AMD 600Mhz machine and wintv card. I got WebVCR working under Red Hat and that satisfied me for a while. Switching to an Athlon 1600 and a MPEG2 capture card I was able to get myth working under FC2. It worked very well. I added another tuner card. All worked well. I decided to add a third card, so here is what I did. I bought a new logic board/processor. I used the same brand (VIA logic/Athlon 3200 processer), and imaged my old unit to my new unit. Everything worked. Not one problem. I added a third capture card. Everything worked. Not one problem. I installed MythFrontend on an old Apple G4 733. It was just fast enough to handle Myth, and now I had Myth in the bedroom and living room (on the G4). I installed it on my G5 in my office now I have myth in three rooms. The old Athlon 1600 in the basement runs myth on the spare TV (using the same image!). Laptops? both running MythFrontend wirelessly. TV movies games, whenever, wherever I want. If I want to add a show from work, I just type in my home URL, (thanks DYNDNS) and search, and record. Myth does everything I need and the monthly fee $0.00!
Of course I am in the camp that absolutely sees no benefit whatsoever in HD TV. I don't need a 20 inch tv that costs as much as a week vacation at Disney World. I don't use a cablecard, and I don't really see the need for BLU-RAY or HD-DVD. It is just TV. I like to watch what I want where I want and how I want. I put forth as much effort as I needed (and once I got the initial setup done, there was minimal effort) to get the system running. Almost all of the hardware was spare stuff I had sitting around collecting dust. And since I enjoy working on PCs and I find open source anything to be good for the soul, you could almost say it was a pleasure to go through the work involved in setting this thing up.
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I tried to setup myth about 4 years ago. I could never get it working. I was using an AMD 600Mhz machine and wintv card. I got WebVCR working under Red Hat and that satisfied me for a while. Switching to an Athlon 1600 and a MPEG2 capture card I was able to get myth working under FC2. It worked very well. I added another tuner card. All worked well. I decided to add a third card, so here is what I did. I bought a new logic board/processor. I used the same brand (VIA logic/Athlon 3200 processer), and imaged my old unit to my new unit. Everything worked. Not one problem. I added a third capture card. Everything worked. Not one problem. I installed MythFrontend on an old Apple G4 733. It was just fast enough to handle Myth, and now I had Myth in the bedroom and living room (on the G4). I installed it on my G5 in my office now I have myth in three rooms. The old Athlon 1600 in the basement runs myth on the spare TV (using the same image!). Laptops? both running MythFrontend wirelessly. TV movies games, whenever, wherever I want. If I want to add a show from work, I just type in my home URL, (thanks DYNDNS) and search, and record. Myth does everything I need and the monthly fee $0.00!
Of course I am in the camp that absolutely sees no benefit whatsoever in HD TV. I don't need a 20 inch tv that costs as much as a week vacation at Disney World. I don't use a cablecard, and I don't really see the need for BLU-RAY or HD-DVD. It is just TV. I like to watch what I want where I want and how I want. I put forth as much effort as I needed (and once I got the initial setup done, there was minimal effort) to get the system running. Almost all of the hardware was spare stuff I had sitting around collecting dust. And since I enjoy working on PCs and I find open source anything to be good for the soul, you could almost say it was a pleasure to go through the work involved in setting this thing up.
And don't forget that monthly fee; $0.00!