I found the Digital Now Quad Tuner card worked great in my mythtv server and was well worth the $199 AUD price tag. In fact, it’s probably the best tuner I have ever used with mythtv. However I did have to do a few things to get it to work, as it doesn’t work straight [...]
mythfrontend sometimes freezes on me. So I configured a button on my remote control to enable me to kill mythfrontend and restart it. This is really useful especially if you don’t have a keyboard and mouse plugged into your machine all the time or if you just want to make it all wife friendly. Here’s [...]
In case you didn’t here, mythtv 0.22 has finally been released. I’ve been waiting more than 1 year for it to be released! Check it out now http://www.mythtv.org
I purchased a DVICO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Express recently and I had quite a hard time getting it to work on Fedora Core 10 (FC10). I did get it to work so I thought I would share what I did. It works well on mythtv. Step 1) Download v4l-dvb version that works! hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/~stoth/v4l-dvb/ [...]
As you may or may not know I’m a big fan of mythtv (www.mythtv.org). However mythtv transcodes videos in NUV (nupple video) format which is quite useless to use on anything other than mythtv. In fact mythtv seems to be the sole user of nuv format these days. I’ve played around with mythtv for some [...]
