Linux PVR

[Brian Kelsay]

I just started building my PVR box the other night.  I have an ATI 
Radeon 7000 video card, Sound Blaster Live Value for sound and 2 Video 
Capture cards.  I believe both cards are supported by Linux.  The first 
is an older (1997) STB TV and FM Radio card and the other is a I/O Magic 
DR-PCTV100 that is really a relabelled Pinnacle PCTV card.  I have a 
3Com 10/100 NIC and a 40 GB Hard drive.  Motherboard has BX chipset, 
384MB RAM and P III-500.  I think this should be powerfull enough for 
video capture, but I may run into speed problems if I want to watch one 
show and record another or watch with picture-in-picture.

I started the RedHat 9 install the other night and came back to it late 
last night when it came time to identify the hardware.  My video, NIC 
and soundcard were recognized and set up automatically.  I am going to 
install Apt-RPM from freshrpms.net before I get any further.  Someone is 
linked to from the mythtv.org site that has built RPMs for the MythTV 
install.  I thought I'd try that before building the whole mess myself. 
  If that doesn't work I'll build the necessary files from source or 
multiple RPMs.

I'll let everyone how it's going from the various steps.  I may do a 
presentation at the end of the build when I've got it working.
Brian

jon.moss at cnonline.net wrote:

> Is anyone using Linux for personal video recording (PVR)?  Are you using
> MythTV?  How do you like it?  What card did you purchase to capture the
> TV/Cable signal?
> 
> I'm thinking about tackling this project at home (rather than buying a
> TiVo box and paying a subscription of $13/month to them).
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Have a great day!
> 
> Jon Moss
> jon.moss at cnonline.net
>