Martyn Henderson
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Martyn Henderson
Email: martyn @ henderson.d2g.com
Personal:
I live in the UK, and have been using Myth since Jan 2004. I'm on my 2nd myth build after 'proving' it would all work, I downsized the machine and made it more acceptable in the living room.
We now have 8 'Freeview' channels courtesy of a Hauppage Nova-T DVB card.
My Setup:
Master Backend: (and front end)
Pentium 3 800 mhz 128MB ram (yes really and it's fine)* 120GB Disk
- Remember myth is not re-encoding my Mpeg data coming off the DVB card, as that is already, in Mp2 so I dont need as much horsepower as an analog 8x8 card for example.
120GB Harddrive
Top Tips
Installation (and Noise)
Rather than spend a fortune on making my myth machine quiet, it lives in the Den under the desk, and has an external vga-svideo converter (maplins) which feeds the tv in the living room along a 15m length of CAT-5.
I just made 2 cat5 adapters to carry the 4 wires needed for s-video (composite degraded too much along the cable), and 4 for audio.. it works a treat, and was way cheaper than buying expensive coolers and quiet PSU's.
UK TV Guide data
I use Andrew Fleggs excellent site, and data feed for UK channels. I use this nasty script, but it works for me, in about 2 seconds!
- !/bin/sh
date >> /var/log/mythtv/daily.log
echo "-Remove old data.xml file if it exists..." rm /tmp/data.xml >nul
echo "-Download updated listings from www.bleb.org..."
wget -q -O /tmp/tvdata.zip "http://www.bleb.org/tv/data/listings?days=0..6&format=xmltv&channels=bbc1,bbc2,itv1,itv2,ch4&file=zip&Application=MythTV&EmailAddress=me@mymail.com" >nul
echo "-Uncompress.."
cd /tmp
unzip /tmp/tvdata.zip >nul
echo "-Update MythTV.."
mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/data.xml > /var/log/mythtv/daily.log
