Re: [tlug] MythTV Workshop

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Dave,

> http://www.uuasc.org/p0612.html
> ...make it look like a
> long process
What I've noticed about most MythTV discussions and tutorials, is they 
seem to all assume that not only are you making a dedicated machine for 
the purpose, but they also want to cover everything from purchasing 
hardware through installing Linux and everything else. They want to tell 
you about partitions and permissions. They also want to set up MythTV to 
do everything from watching TV to surfing the web to making espresso.

Really MythTV is just another application, so if you're running Linux 
already, setting up MythTV is just a matter of downloading it from the 
repositories. I currently only use it for watching television and AVI 
files. And I kind of think this is the way to go... start it up and run 
with it a bit to get used to it. Later on get ambitious and maybe use it 
for web surfing or internet telephony. When I get my friend's old 
computer and use it as a dedicated Myth machine, the only other 
aspiration I have for it besides TV is music.

The trickiest part of the most basic installation is the drivers for the 
TV input card. It seems to be the one thing out of the process that you 
can't simply download and install from the repositories. But it's not so 
hard, just tedious. And it has much improved since when I first tried it.

So bottom line is that if you want to make MythTV your be all and end 
all entertainment media system right from the word go, then it will 
probably be a long process. But if you want to just try it out, it's not 
so bad.

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Dave M G
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
Kernel 2.6.20-14-generic
Pentium D Dual Core Processor