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| + | I don't want to mount a satellite at my home, so cable is the option I choose. | ||
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| + | Read more about [[Netherlands#UPC|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 ;-) | ||
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Revision as of 19:49, 26 April 2007
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...
My contributions so far are about TV-Out configuration. I did not find the needed information in this wiki so far, so I decided to write it myself now I have got it working... Recently I have written many updates about Hauppauge TV capture cards as that brand is what I have experiences with. See Hauppauge PVR-150, Hauppauge PVR-500 and Hauppauge WinTV-Go.
Please note that I live in the Netherlands, so examples in configuration files may contain local information!
If you have any questions about configuring TV output I may have some time to answer them: michel at vlet dot net
About my boxes
My primary MythTV box (backend+frontend)
- Mainboard: Abit KR7A-RAID.
- Processor: Athlon XP 1800+
- Memory: 2GB (DDR266)
- Videocard: NVidia GeForce FX5200 with 128MB RAM, using the NVidiaProprietaryDriver.
- Disks:
- System disk: Excelstor 60GB.
- MythTV data disk: Hitachi Deskstar 320GB.
- Optical: Creative Labs DVD-ROM player.
- TV-Card: Hauppauge PVR-500 (using the IVTV driver)
- Soundcard: Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live Value!
- Display: Loewe widescreen television.
- Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote Control revision #2.
- Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed 'etch', i386 architecture)
My secondary MythTV box (frontend only)
- Mainboard: Gigabyte K8NS-Ultra939.
- Processor: Athlon 64 3000+.
- Memory: 1GB (dual channel DDR400)
- Videocard: ATI Radeon 9250, using the AtiProprietaryDriver.
- Disk: Maxtor 250GB SATA.
- Optical: NEC DVD-RW ND3500AG
- Soundcard: on-board AC97 codec.
- Display: SVGA computer monitor.
- Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (codenamed 'etch', amd64 architecture)
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 ;-)
