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Revision as of 12:32, 15 June 2010

About me

While my first attempt to build a mythtv box was just 'another try of potentially funny software' I am currently using a fully customized box in my living room. Simply because using the old-fashioned TV with its own built-in tuner is like living in the middle ages :-)

The WAF is high, maybe too high :-| as my girlfriend now 'owns' the MCE remote for this system...

If you have any questions about my contributions to the MythTV wiki I may have some time to answer them: michel at vlet dot net.

About my contributions to the MythTV wiki

My contributions to the MythTV wiki started on this international MythTV wiki. Currently I am also active as a moderator on the Dutch MythTV wiki. The main contributions on this international wiki are about videocards (especially on the AtiProprietaryDriver and NVidiaProprietaryDriver pages I started. Furthermore I contributed to the pages about the TV capture cards from Hauppauge, Hauppauge PVR-150, Hauppauge PVR-500 and Hauppauge WinTV-Go.

Statistics

  • Number of shows: 320
  • Number of episodes: 1068
  • First recording: Monday May 22nd, 2006
  • Last recording: Tuesday February 16th, 2010
  • Total Running Time: 3 years 8 months 26 days 18 uur 26 min
  • Total Recorded: 1 month 10 days 13 uur 50 min
  • Percent of time spent recording: 3%

About my boxes

My current/production MythTV box (backend+frontend)

Hardware

  • Mainboard: Abit KR7A-RAID.
  • Processor: Athlon XP 1800+
  • Memory: 1GB (DDR266)
  • Videocard: NVidia GeForce FX5200 with 128MB RAM, using the NVidiaProprietaryDriver.
  • Disks:
    • System disk: Excelstor 60GB.
    • MythTV data disk: Hitachi Deskstar 320GB.
  • Optical: NEC DVD RW AD-7173A
  • TV-Card: Hauppauge PVR-500 (using the IVTV driver)
  • Soundcard: Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live Value!
  • Input devices:
    • Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech Pro 2800 Cordless Desktop
    • Joystick: Logitech Cordless Rumblepad 2
    • Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote Control revision #2.
  • Display: LG 37LH5000 37" widescreen LCD television

Software

  • Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r9 (codenamed 'etch', i386 architecture)
  • Kernel: (custom) 2.6.24.4
  • LIRC: (from source) 0.8.3-CVS
  • MythTV 0.21

My test MythTV box (backend+frontend) which also serves as my desktop

Hardware

  • Mainboard: Gigabyte M56S-S3.
  • Processor: Athlon X2 4000+ dual-core.
  • Memory: 4GB (DDR2-800, dual-channel)
  • Videocard: NVidia GeForce 8500 with 512MB RAM, using the NVidiaProprietaryDriver.
  • Disks:
    • System disk: Hitachi Deskstar 320GB, SATA-II.
  • Optical: NEC DVD RW AD-7173A
  • TV-Card: Hauppauge HVR-2200
  • Soundcard: Intel HD audio (onboard)
  • Display: Mitsubishi 22 inch.
  • Remote: none.

Software

  • Distribution: Kubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
  • Kernel: 2.6.27-11
  • LIRC: none
  • MythTV 0.22

My future MythTV backend

Hardware

  • Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-K8NS rev. 2.0
  • Processor: AMD Sempron64 2600+.
  • Memory: 1,5GB (1x1024MB + 2x256MB DDR400)
  • Videocard: NVidia GeForce2
  • Disks: 2x Hitachi 1TB SATA. (RAID-1)
  • Optical: CD-ROM.
  • Soundcard: on-board AC97 codec.
  • Display: none.

Software

  • Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codenamed 'lenny', amd64 architecture)
  • MythTV 0.22

My future MythTV frontend

Hardware

  • Mainboard: unknown.
  • Processor: Intel 2.4GHz
  • Memory: 1GB (2x 512MB DDR266)
  • Videocard: XFX GeForce 6200LE (Low profile)
  • Disk: 40GB PATA.
  • Optical: NEC DVD burner.
  • Soundcard: Asus Xonar DS 7.1 (Low profile)
  • Display: will be connected to the Loewe widescreen TV in the future.

Software

  • Distribution: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
  • MythTV 0.22

TV reception

As I live in the Netherlands, I have only choice between a few options. DVB-T is not available in Brielle, so I have to choose between cable and Satellite. I don't want to mount a satellite at my home, so cable is the option I choose.

Read more about UPC on this wiki, and you know why I have stuck with analogue cable via the PVR. And after all: the analogue signal quality is good enough here in our country ;-)