Re: Myth TV? MCE? What to choose...

["dermot_bradley" <bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Kim Wall <kim@d...> wrote:

> Myth will handle this with no problems - I'm basically doing the
> same  thing (PVR250 fed from freeview STB[1] and a DVB card).

I'll be doing the same sort of thing myself shortly with Myth - PVR250
for Sky STB input and multiple PCI DVB-T cards for Freeview.

> > So, has anyone tried something like this? Suggest any good
> > hardware? Would the nebula DVB card which can do whole
> > multiplex recording work with Myth TV for instance?
>
> I beleive the card works, but MythTV does not currently support
> recording more than one channel at a time on one card, mainly
> because it would require a major re-write of the scheduling logic
> which isn't a priority to the developers at this time.  However
> here's no reason to believe this won't get added in future.

There is work underway on Myth at present to do a rewrite for the
DVB-T card handler - basically at present if you want to record a
channel and there's no unused card then you're out of luck, however
when the new code is in place if there's an active card already tuined
to the same Mux as the channel you want then it'll use that - so if
you have as many DVB-T cards as there are Muxes then you'll be laughing...

I can't remember if there's plans to record a whole mux in one go with
Myth.

> I'm very impressed with MythTV generally - like most things in
> the linux world, it can be a fiddly bastard to set it up the way
> you want it, but once working it's pretty reliable if you don't
> muck about with anything critical.

Well the fiddly setup etc is what I'm playing around with at the
moment - I've built my own Linux "media server" distribution
(inc.
Myth) and another Myth Frontend distribution and I'm trying to get it
all to automagically configure without manual intervention...this is
my ongoing project :-)