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Revision as of 12:32, 15 June 2010
Contents
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 ;-)