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Revision as of 01:43, 8 April 2006

Let me just start by saying MythTV rocks. I was keeping track of where I was at with Myth on my home wiki, but then figured I might as well share it here!

My Setup

Combined FE/BE.

Hardware

• AMD S754 Athlon 64 3700+
• Gigabyte S754 GA-K8VM800M
• 1GB Ram
• 320GB Western Digital 7200rpm 8M Serial ATA HDD
• Albatron FX5200LP 128M 8x Video Card with DVI output.

• DVICO FusionHDTV Hybrid Tuner
• DNTVLive LP Tuner

• BenQ PE8700 DLP Projector

Software

• Ubuntu Breezy server install
• Kernel 2.6.12-10-amd64-k8
• Patched v4l-dvb drivers (Many thanks to Chris Pascoe for getting the DVICO card going)
• NVidia amd64 version 8178 (I think the recommended version 7176 has amd64 bugs)
• Ratpoison window manager
• MythTV 0.19.x fixes branch
• Xine external DVD/video player

What's working for me

• Live TV/TV recording Free to air HD/SD (from Sydney, Australia). Both tuner's simultaneously.
• AC3 passthrough including 5,1 surround
• XvMC with Bob de-interlacing.
• XMLTV grabber from the OZTivo site
• MythMusic
• MythGallery
• MythDVD using xine as an external player

What's not

• Nothing! apart from the odd crash.

What more do I want to do

• I'd like MythMusic to use MythGallery as a visualisation!
• More cleanup of MythGallery thumbnail code. (Thumbnail cache is unnecessary if EXIF thumbnails are available in the images themselves)

Useful config info

xorg.conf for PE8700. ExactModeTimingsDVI is important!, not sure about the others.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Benq PE8700"
    Option         "DPMS"
    Option         "UseEDIDFreqs" "true"
    Option         "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "true"
    Option             "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Modeline "pe8700" 74.160 1280 1352 1392 1648 720 725 730 750 -hsync -vsync
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