[GRLUG] MythTV

[Michael Mol]

On 10/15/06, Ron Lauzon <rlauzon at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've built 3 MythTV systems so far.  One version 0.17 and two version
> 0.18s (one is my main DVR the other was just a test to check something
> out).  All were very stable once set up.
>
> Two of the systems were built with PVR--250 cards.  But the last one was
> a PVR-150.  I know from getting that one working that the ivtv drivers
> for the PVR-150 and PVR-500 cards are very new and probably aren't in
> the distro you used.  That's probably the problem.  The older drivers
> seem to work (sort of), but to have a usable system, you need the latest
> ivtv drivers and have them installed correctly.

Several members of the GRCC Computer Club want to build a MythTV box,
but the components are prohibitively expenseive.  Any recipes for a
budget MythTV box?

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