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MythTV 0.19 Released
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Interesting. I had almost the exact opposite experience with 0.18 and a Twinhan digital (DVB-T) card.
The main issue I had with MythTV was the (non-intuitive to me anyway) procedure to get the DVB-T card to scan for the channels. One has to manually add a transport for each frequency, then tell it to scan that transport for channels (PID's). This wasn't mentioned in the setup notes or the excellent Fedora Setup guide. Once I got over that hurdle, things went much smoother.
This 'manual add of transports' was not necessary using another application such as Kaffeine which just scanned for all frequencies/channels.
The other main issue for us non-US folks was getting XML-TV to play nice with the online guide data (lots of fiddling with timezone settings and removing duplicate channels.
Works like a charm now! I dare not touch it in case something breaks again:)
I tried it once going from Leeds to London... by the time I actually managed to connect to my VPN I was already a third of the way back to London. From then on it wasn't particularly quick, especially using bandwidth-hogging apps such as Outlook (yeah yeah, it's a work laptop...).
I would hope that using WiMax as the uplink would improve throughput somewhat.
Not at all.
We use it 'unofficially' in our company and it's invaluable for tracking which customer site your workmates are at, asking them quick questions that aren't worth the bother of a distracting phone call, discussing stuff in the 'background' while on conference calls - this last one had the unfortunate side-effect once of someone on the conference call not realising they weren't on mute, someone (ok it was me) sent them a funny IM to which they started laughing out loud, for all on the call to hear... oops.
Wouldn't live without it!
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Interesting. I had almost the exact opposite experience with 0.18 and a Twinhan digital (DVB-T) card.
The main issue I had with MythTV was the (non-intuitive to me anyway) procedure to get the DVB-T card to scan for the channels. One has to manually add a transport for each frequency, then tell it to scan that transport for channels (PID's). This wasn't mentioned in the setup notes or the excellent Fedora Setup guide. Once I got over that hurdle, things went much smoother.
This 'manual add of transports' was not necessary using another application such as Kaffeine which just scanned for all frequencies/channels.
The other main issue for us non-US folks was getting XML-TV to play nice with the online guide data (lots of fiddling with timezone settings and removing duplicate channels. Works like a charm now! I dare not touch it in case something breaks again :)
Oh whew, for a moment I thought Jack Thompson got thrown out of court...
I knew there had to be a catch.
It's called "marketing hype". I believe Microsoft has some experience in this area.
It's marginally worse than being a "galah".
http://www.gner.co.uk/GNER/Wi-Fi/How+does+it+work. htm
I tried it once going from Leeds to London... by the time I actually managed to connect to my VPN I was already a third of the way back to London. From then on it wasn't particularly quick, especially using bandwidth-hogging apps such as Outlook (yeah yeah, it's a work laptop...).
I would hope that using WiMax as the uplink would improve throughput somewhat.
Not at all. We use it 'unofficially' in our company and it's invaluable for tracking which customer site your workmates are at, asking them quick questions that aren't worth the bother of a distracting phone call, discussing stuff in the 'background' while on conference calls - this last one had the unfortunate side-effect once of someone on the conference call not realising they weren't on mute, someone (ok it was me) sent them a funny IM to which they started laughing out loud, for all on the call to hear... oops. Wouldn't live without it!