[mythtv-users] MythTV looks incredible

[James Pifer]

Answering a couple replies at once here. 

The poor quality is due to the VCR recording's and/or the tapes. If I
play a purchased video tape the quality is fine. Regular TV also looks
ok. A recorded show from any of my VCR's is crap. That being said, I
don't have high-end VCR's either. 

As far as the remote, I was thinking more in terms of the playback in
the home theater, when not sitting in front of the PC. I was thinking,
(assuming :-( ) that playback would be a function of MythTV not the
tuner card, hence the remote not being usable? That was an assumption,
possibly a bad one. Live TV would be ok. I'll hit the archives again
about the remote control.  

DVD, yes, I meant authoring DVD's with MythTV captured/recorded video. I
already have the other pieces as I have converted a bunch of home videos
to DVD.

Thanks,
James 

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 07:12, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Monday 13 October 2003 03:06 pm, James Pifer wrote:
> > Hi. I have been looking for a DVR to run on Linux for a while. I came
> > across the web site last week and it looks awesome. 
> > 
> > I've searched the mailing list and read a bunch of stuff, plus looked
> > over the web site. I do have a couple questions (or verification) before
> > I go buy cards for this. 
> > 
> > I tape a lot of shows using VCR's and the playback quality blows, which
> > is the big reason I want to do this. I also want to playback on my home
> > theater (Infocus X1). 
> 
> If you have a good-quality VCR (especially one w/S-Video out), use 
> good-quality videotapes and record at the best quality setting on your VCR 
> (usually 'SP'), then I doubt you'll see much of a picture improvement by 
> switching to a PVR.  Garbage in, garbage out, as they say... 
> 
> 
> > So, I need a tuner card plus a video card that supports Video out. 
> > For cost/performance break point and known supported cards I'm looking
> > at:
> > Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Tuner (want MPEG2 for DVD's)
> > AGP Geforce4 MX440 DDR64 w/TVout
> > (My system is an Athlon 1.2Ghz with 1 GB SDRAM)
> > 
> > Looks like I can pick the cards up on ebay for somewhere around $150.
> > 
> > Assuming I have everything right so far, my only concern with this setup
> > is how much am I going to miss having the remote control when watching
> > the recordings (or live TV) on my home theater? Any comments to that?
> 
> The PVR-250 comes with a remote; see the mailing list archives for issues 
> people have had getting it working.
> 
> Also, you say you want MPEG-2 for DVDs... what exactly do you mean by this?  
> If you mean you would like to use your Myth recordings to author DVDs, then 
> yes, you should be able to do that with the appropriate DVD-authoring 
> software.  If you're talking about ripping DVDs, then you don't need anything 
> besides a DVD-ROM drive, lots of CPU and time.
> 
> -JAC
> 
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