[TriLUG] A Myth TV question, I think

[Matt Pusateri]

I'd be curious what cards your using?

On Nov 7, 2008, at 10:17 AM, suamme1 at gmail.com wrote:

> I have 2 DVB cards (PCI and PCIe) and can record up to 4 programs at  
> once. Each card is set to record up to two on the same multiplex.
>
> I have recorded 2 HD programs and 1 SD (with MPEG encoder card)  
> while watching a recording and have had no problems.
>
> The system is my primary backend, frontend, and desktop and is a  
> core 2 duo 2.2 with 1.5 TB of storage and it does pretty well.
>
> -ES
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: <OlsonE at aosa.army.mil>
>
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 08:46:09
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] A Myth TV question, I think
>
>
> On that note, is anyone using MythTV to record HD content? How many
> streams are you able to record simultaneously? How much disk space do
> you have for the system?
>
> As of late, I've been having tons of issues with my TW cable box.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of Greg Brown
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 6:49 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] A Myth TV question, I think
>
> They'd all be non-HD.  I think this is the solution I'm looking for.
> Now..
> to build..  and spend!!
>
> Greg
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Neil L. Little
> <nllittle at embarqmail.com>wrote:
>
>> You could also transcode them to a codec that produces smaller files
> (VLC).
>>
>> 73,
>> Neil, WA4AZL
>> JARS Forever!!
>> www.jars.net
>>
>> Brian Phelps wrote:
>>> HD or non HD?  See
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
>>> Read the fine print, H.264 720p is huge and tough to play back, even
>>> for a decent machine.  Try downloading the test clip.
>>>
>>> Non HD, there are cable capture-cards by hauppage.  I set one up
> once.
>>> It was pretty easy.  I only used it for a week or so.  The places
> you
>>> get the tables from for programming can be a pain, maybe someone
> else
>>> could elaborate who has more experience with this.
>>>
>>> No cable card, you gotta set up your MythTV to change the channel on
>>> the remote cable box via IR right?  I've never done that.  Sounds
> like
>>> a pain, but I don't know.
>>>
>>> The captured files are just movie files.  You could always copy them
>>> over using rsync etc.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Peeps:
>>>>
>>>> I have cable at home and I'd like very much to record a lot of
> shows and
>>>> take those shows with me while on vacation, even for my
> (thankfully)
>>>> frequent weekend getaways.  What's the best way to do this?  Have
> two
>> Myth
>>>> TV servers, one at each location and record to a big old honkin' 2
> TB
>> disk
>>>> pack?  I'd prefer not to take an entire computer with me if at all
>> possible.
>>>>
>>>> How easy is this to set up and get running?  I suspect the home
> server
>> would
>>>> connect to the cable system that we have with Time Warner.  At the
> beach
>>>> we're soon not going to have a cable provider.  I should be able to
>> output
>>>> via RCA or HDMI, right?
>>>>
>>>> Greg
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