[mythtv-users] Advice on Building a Quiet MythTV Box?

[Paul Gardiner]

migmog wrote:
> This all worked very nicely EXCEPT FOR LIVE TV which SUCKED so badly
> it was unusable. One day the frontend died, so I replaced it with a
> Topfield commercial PVR which works very well for live TV, but is
> thoroughly amateur compared to myth for recordings. The back end is
> still chuntering away recording stuff which I can transfer to the
> commercial PVR to watch if I want to.

Would be great to automate that: MythTV backend, with PVR playback.
As you said MythTV wipes the floor with any PVR on recording, but
PVRs still seem to win in terms of playback quality. Anybody ever
found a way to make a PVR use a MythTV backend?

Cheers,
	Paul.