[mythtv-users] Moving from MCE to MythTV

[Matt Mousseau]

Matthew Mousseau
AMSVans, Inc. Webmaster
matt at amsvans.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dewey Smolka
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 4:09 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Moving from MCE to MythTV
> 
> 
> On 5/5/06, Ron Rademaker <ron at ttvavanti.nl> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> 
> > About hardware, I got a ASUS 9550 (ATI chipset) with 128M 
> so I guess I 
> > could use the fglrx driver for best performance. Does 
> MythTV mind what 
> > drivers are used (at all)?
> 
> Very much so. You may have no trouble with fglrx, then again 
> you might. The general consensus for Mythtv favors Nvidia 
> cards with the binary nvidia kmdl and driver.
> 
> > Furthermore, I got my tv attached at the
> > tvout (s-video) and a CRT monitor at the VGA output. Will this be a 
> > problem?
> 
> Probably not, depending on what you want. It's not a problem, 
> for example, to run a separate X session for each display and 
> keep Mythtv on the TV display and a desktop on your monitor.

Would someone mind pointing me in the correct direction on how to do this? I
had no idea that you could do something like this! This could be very cool
for the frontend in my room...be able to use it both ways...interesting.

Thanks!
-Matt

> 
> > I got two Hauppauge PVR150 cards for tuning, is this card well 
> > supported? Are drivers in the 2.6-kernels?
> 
> Very well supported. The ivtv driver isn't in the kernel but 
> the module works very well.
> 
> > I also have a bunch of movies recorded with MCE that I'll 
> want be able 
> > to view with MythTV, do I need to convert somehow or will 
> MythTV play 
> > stuff recorded with MCE?
> 
> You should be able to play these through MythVideo using the 
> default mplayer setting.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Ron
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