Re: MythTV VS TopupTV
- From: "Doki" <mrdoki@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:43:17 +0100
"TD" <topper.doggle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:g2ptrq$7kv$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 2008-06-11, Doki <mrdoki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"TD" <topper.doggle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2008-06-11, Doki <mrdoki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:I've spotted a TopupTV PVR thing in the supermarket at £80, which is made
by
Thomson. I've also got a Compaq PC which I was planning to make into a
MythTV box (IIRC it's a P4 1.7 with 512 megs of RAM). By my reckoning,
it's
going to cost around £80-100 to get that working as a MythTV machine, as
I'll need a Hauppage 350 and a videocard with S-video out, unless I can
scrounge one, along with a linux compatable Wifi card for it.
No. You don't need a 350 - any DVB-R PCI card that works with Linux will
do.
Why do you need s-video out - what display device will you be using on the
frontend? Also, why the WiFi? How are you going to set up the network?
Is the 350 not *the* twin tuner DVB card that works with linux? The TopupTV
thing is twin tuner.
No. It's an old POS. http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_PVR-350
Have a look at http://tinyurl.com/6fl79q. You can gauge compatibility via
judicious searching of http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and
searching the web for the card model and Linux.
I have a couple of these: http://tinyurl.com/5ujqhj. They work fine, see
http://tinyurl.com/53thzc. I don't think they made dual-tuner PCI cards when
I set my box up.
If you want twin tuners on one card, you could try http://tinyurl.com/47gbqk,
which is well supported (see http://tinyurl.com/2unn68).
Wifi so that I can access music and films over the network. Manually
transferring everything to IDE hard drives is not really a practical option
for me. Network would run through SAMBA would it not?
That's fair enough. You only need Samba if you want to access stuff directly
from the filesystem, using Windows networking. Myth has its own networking
infrastructure, assuming that (a) what you want to access is imported into (or
recorded by) Myth, and (b) you have the Myth frontend installed on all client
machines.
Most important question - what OS will you be running on the frontend (client)
machines? If Windows, see http://tinyurl.com/56bmzm.
Thinking of a combined front and back box under the telly. All the other machines in the house will be windows, hence samba.
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