Rob Miller

From MythTV

I'm a new MythTV user, as of late January 2007. I'd love to join a Seattle MUG sometime. Email me at my gmail account, rdmiller.

Here's the specs of my Myth systems.

Backend/Frontend2:
Rackmountable case
Intel D845GEBV2 board
P4 2.4 GHz
1 GB (2x512MB) DDR RAM
PNY nVidia GeForce 5200
Not Active -- Gateway #6000699 STB BT848 TV/Radio tuner (FM1236/F), including chips TEA6300T, TDA1308 and TDA9850T
HDHomerun
40GB Sys, 80GB Data, 250GB FireWire HDs
Internal CD-RW, External FireWire DVD-RW
Onboard Intel Audio for TV, M-Audio Delta 44 for other audio
Mythbuntu
MythTV 0.20-fixes weekly builds
(2) Samsung SyncMaster 172N LCD monitors in Twinview.

Frontend1:
Sony VAIO PCG-V505DX
Intel Centrino 1.4 GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 <-- Just missed the cutoff for driver support in Linux, darn...
512 MB RAM
60 GB HD (Unused for Myth data, NFSed to backend 250GB drive)
Mythbuntu
MythTV 0.20-fixes weekly builds
Vizio 32" LCD Display at 1366x768

I had some trouble getting the audio on my TV card to work when I used openSUSE 10.2. Here are the settings I used if this helps anyone.

Open as root the file /etc/modprobe.d/tv and use this file for your Gateway STB card.

alias char-major-81 videodev
# YaST configured TV card
# UVH2.ei6eMzKDZY3:STB TV BT848
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
alias char-major-81-1 tvaudio
alias char-major-81-2 off
alias char-major-81-3 off
options bttv card=40oo tuner=2 radio=1 debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
options tvaudio tda9850=1 tda9855=0 tea6300=1 debug=1

The following are the things I'm working on improving with my system

1. Setting ALSA to save my volume settings during reboots. 80% seems to work well for everything, except Capture needs to be set to zero.
2. Archiving recordings to xvid
3. Streaming video through an internet connection
4. Getting the Myth volume control to work
5. Getting a remote control

My Wishlist

1. X10 integration
2. Hoping to see Flash video for Mythweb soon