shavano
Even in America -- I long for America
join:2003-06-08
Dallas, TX
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Re: [rant] I give up on Mac OS X for a HTPC.
I can sympathize. I been trying to find a solution to this for almost a month. I couldn't find an acceptable Mac solution -- primarily because there's no out-of-the-box solution for tuning the external DirecTV STB.
So I bought a PVR-150 and stuck it in an PC that gets almost no use. I tried the trial versions of BeyondTV and also SageTV. Both have their advantages, BeyondTV would sometimes stutter and need a restart to fix. BeyondTV does great commercial flagging; SageTV does not but seems to be better quality.
I'm not willing to buy Windows MCE and don't really want to use Windows at all, so I have wrestled with MythTV for nearly a month. Damn! Linux can be a pain. Turns out, the driver didn't properly recognize and work with my new version PVR-150. Setting the tuner type in modprobe.conf would let the tuner work but never got any S-Video.
I think if Comcast wasn't so proud of their service, the way to go would be to get their HD service and use firewire from the HD box with MythTV. But we watch very little TV anyway, it's hardly worth what I've put into so far.
This, just to record Colbert, Stewart and Olbermann. Sheesh!
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MarkyD
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join:2002-08-20
Oklahoma City, OK
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| said by shavano  :I think if Comcast wasn't so proud of their service, the way to go would be to get their HD service and use firewire from the HD box with MythTV. But we watch very little TV anyway, it's hardly worth what I've put into so far. This, just to record Colbert, Stewart and Olbermann. Sheesh! you know, I have been reading a lot about getting a stream via firewire to a computer running SageTV or MCE. Apparently it works with a lot of SA and Motorola STBs. I'm going to give it a shot. That would allow me to record the HD channels on my cable tier that I can't get with an OTA card.
Currently, I just have analog cable since most shows I watch are broadbast over the air in HD on the networks.
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