[mythtv-users] An option for watching tv

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:14 PM, devsk wrote:

> but why? it should be fairly easily be possible with mythtv. xawtv  
> doesn't work for my card, but that's besides the point. I had  
> problems with mythtv initially and I tried all programs present in  
> gentoo portage for watching tv. None worked. mythtv finally worked  
> with a trick that I got from pvrusb2 howto.

Sounds like you should ask the xawtv list why it's not working for you.

> why do I need two programs to basically do two things which are so  
> related to one another: watch tv and record shows. livetv doesn't  
> need to hang just because I ran out of space.

We've been trying to explain to you how to fix it so it doesn't run  
out of disk space and cause you a problem. I'm sorry you only have  
4GB free. You'll need to work within that limitation by reducing the  
quality of your LiveTV recordings and/or telling mythtv to reserve  
extra space on the system so it will expire LiveTV before it fills  
your drive. The easy answer it to invest $30 and quintuple your  
storage capabilities. I see a 20GB drive for $26.99 on Compgeeks.