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* Enermax low noise power supply ( The Antec power supply was noisy, recycled this one from a previous case
 
* Enermax low noise power supply ( The Antec power supply was noisy, recycled this one from a previous case
 
* NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Video Card
 
* NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Video Card
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* [[Hauppauge HVR-1600]] Capture Card
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* Hauppauge HVR-1600 Capture Card
* [[Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950]]Q Capture Card
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* Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950Q Capture Card
 
* [[How_to_build_a_coaxial_SPDIF_bracket|Coaxial SPDIF Bracket]]
 
* [[How_to_build_a_coaxial_SPDIF_bracket|Coaxial SPDIF Bracket]]
 
** Coaxial cable to Yamaha Receiver
 
** Coaxial cable to Yamaha Receiver

Revision as of 00:23, 12 September 2010

Over 7693 recordings served, and running for 4 years 7 months 6 days 20 mins.

Main MythTV System

The Hardware

My system
  • Antec Fusion Black 430 Case, with LCD
  • ASUS P4V8X-MX motherboard
    • Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
    • 1024 MB of Ram
    • Zalman CNPS7700-Cu CPU cooler
  • Enermax low noise power supply ( The Antec power supply was noisy, recycled this one from a previous case
  • NVIDIA GeForce 6200 Video Card
  • Kworld ATSC 110 Capture Card
  • Hauppauge HVR-1600 Capture Card
  • Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950Q Capture Card
  • Coaxial SPDIF Bracket
    • Coaxial cable to Yamaha Receiver
  • Homemade Serial Receiver with recycled EchoStar Remote, and a Philips KW1009 IR Keyboard/Mouse
  • 1500 Gb of Storage ( 1TB + 500 Gb drives )
  • Tripp Lite OMNI 1000 LCD UPS
    • Using the watchdog feature to detect hangs, and reset the mythtv system
  • LG 50PG10 Plasma Display
  • Yamaha HTR N5060 Receiver, with 6.1 speaker system

The Software

  • Heavily modified MythBuntu 8.04.1 OS
    • Only piece remaining of original install is the splash screen on startup
  • MythTv 0.22
  • Xymon Network Monitoring
  • MediaWiki for storing configuration information
  • NUT for monitoring UPS
  • Schedules Direct for listings
  • Monit for automated restarting of myth processes

TV Sources

Yagi and CM 4221
  • Channel Master 4221 UHF TV Antenna
    • Channel Master CM 0068DSB VHF/UHF/FM Spartan 3 Outdoor Pre-Amp
  • UHF Corner Reflector Yagi antenna, cut out of a Radio Shack antenna Model: VU-190 XR I had lying around
    • Channel Master CM 0068DSB VHF/UHF/FM Spartan 3 Outdoor Pre-Amp

Both antenna's are mounted on a chimney mount, and the Channel Master is pointing at the CN Tower, while the Yagi is pointing at buffalo. With this setup I currently receive 18 HDTV Channnels, and 1 SD channel. TVO Ontario is the only GTA TV Station not broadcasting in digital yet.

Antenna Card /dev/ DMESG Myth Tuner Source Input
CM 4221
HVR 950Q DVB 0 Avitek 1 HDTV Cdn CA-950Q
KW 110 DVB 1 Nextwave 2 HDTV Cdn CA-KW110
HVR 1600 Video 2 4 OTA OTA
Yagi HVR 1600 DVB 2 Samsung 3 HDTV US US-HVR1600

OTA Channel Listing


2-1	WGRZ-HD	WGRZ-HD
2-2	WGRZ-W+	WGRZ-W+
4-1	WIVB-HD	WIVB HDTV
5-1	CBLT-DT	CBC Toronto High Definition Television
7-1	WKBW-HD	WKBW-HD
7-2	WNGS	WNGS
9-1	CFTO HD	CFTO HD
17-1	WNED-HD	WNED-HD
17-2	WNED-SD	WNED-SD
17-3	WNED-Th	WNED-Th
19	CICA	TV Ontario (CICA)
23	WNLO	WNLO
25	CBLFT	SRC Toronto Haute definition
29	WUTV	WUTV FOX
41	CIII	CIII (Global - Ontario)
47	CFMT	CFMT (OMNI 1)
52	CKXT-DT	CKXT-DT
57-1	City HD	CityTV HD TORONTO
66-1	CKXT-DT	CKXT-DT
69	CJMT	CJMT - Omni2 Television

Basement System

Upstairs System

Mplayer Config

One of the things I have never been able to find is a really good mplayer config file, that works really well with my setup. So after alot of tuning over several months I have come up with this config, which I feel works really well for me, YMMV. I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config file.

Humm multi threaded mplayer - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1104967

# mplayer config options

#General setup
fs="yes"
zoom="yes"
quiet="yes"
nojoystick="yes"
cache="8192"
sws="0"

lavdopts=threads=2:skiploopfilter=all:fast=1

# Audio options

ao="alsa:device=spdif" #audio out
ac="hwdts,hwac3,"
mixer-channel="Master"
srate=48000

# Video options

vo="xv" #video out
zoom="1" #Allow sofware scaling if you use x11 for vo from the commandline
noaspect="1" # disable predefined aspect ratios ( XVID )

#Display

double="yes" #double buffering(recommended for subtitles)
monitoraspect="16:9" #Use for a widescreen laptop so keeps 4:3 content from stretching
aspect="16:9" #Use for a widescreen laptop so keeps 4:3 content from stretching
framedrop="1" # For slow machines

#subtitle code

#set this if you haven't copied your preferred font to ~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf
font=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/impact.ttf
ffactor="10" #black outline
sub-bg-alpha="0" #background color ala closed captions
sub-bg-color="0" #black to white
subfont-text-scale="3.7" #truetype font scaling
subfont-blur="1" #Slight blur

#This sets the postprocessing into overdrive using all possible spare cpu cycles to make the movie look better
autoq=100
vf=pp=de,hqdn3d
subpos="90" #By default subtitles are too low
subalign="2"
#turns off xscreen saver...sometimes
stop-xscreensaver="yes"