Re: Mythtv Recommendations

["Matthew Miles" <m_miles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey All,

Regarding the PVR 250...  interested in getting MythTV up and running
myself and found these on eBay:

http://tinyurl.com/796zk

At time of writing the guy has 25 available at =A340 inc shipping - not
bad as far as I can tell!

N.B

No affilliation etc just thought this may be useful for those
interested in getting one!

HTH,

Matt :)

P.S

These are OEM cards and do not have composite in only S-video, but
thats easy enough to get around!

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@s...> wrote:
> For controlling a Sky+/Sky box, you may be interested in a
mini-review I've just written on a USB box that communicates with the
box through the RF port - no dodgy IR!
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> I'm just waiting on Mark getting back to me so I can upload it to
Automatedhome.co.uk - Is Mark away at the moment????
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> Paul.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
> > Kim Wall
> > Sent: 18 July 2005 14:50
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Mythtv Recommendations
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> > aashram wrote:
> > > Any experienced user recommend a good capture card (s-video
or
rgb in)
> > > What IR output device can I use to control my setup box.
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> > Using a Hauppage PVR250 with myth here - it Just Works, and the
> > quality's spiffy.  The 150/500 are allegedly a littHey allle more
fiddly to get
> > working (think they need a more recent ivtv driver), but many
people
> > seem to be using them.  The 350 works fine, and has a built-in
decoder,
> > but personally I'd save myself a few quid and get a 250 and cheap
Nvidia
> > card (the TV out works fine with the binary driver), especially
if the
> > backend is going in a separate box[0].
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> > If you're up to a little soldering, a serial IR dongle can be
made
> > relatively easily[1].  Myth doesn't care how it changes channel,
it just
> > calls a script with the desired channel as a parameter, so it's
dead
> > easy to interface with pretty much anything.
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> > kim.
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> > [0] Which I'd recommend if you're serious about myth - much
easier to
> > keep the disks/capture cards/beefier CPU cool if it's tucked out
of the
> > way in node 0 where you don't mind a few fans.
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> > [1] I'm using an overly complicated PIC-based transmitter that I
built
> > ages before I'd heard of myth to allow control of the STB from
any
> > computer in house.
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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