On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 16:29, Kirk Bocek wrote: > Scot L. Harris wrote: > Groovy! I also found several detailed instructions on getting X running on the 350. > Now I can say bye-bye to the Radeon 7000 and just use the VGA that's onboard the > motherboard during setup. That'll leave another slot for capture cards. UPS just > showed up with my PVR-350... > > This is exactly what I am doing with the new slave backend system. The ECS board has built in VGA which is what I am using during setup. By next week this box will be using the PVR-350 for all output. But I wanted to try and test the DVD first. :) > > I have not worked with the DVD much yet. On my todo list. :) I have > > read where it should be possible to run xine out the PVR-350 but it is > > not clear to me if the quality is going to be acceptable. Until then I > > use the old Apex DVD player. > > I hope this works. Replacing the DVD player in the AV shelving is a primary goal for me. > > Me too! The Apex player I have does not like DVD-R or +R for that matter. > > > > You want at least two so you can record two shows at once or watch live > > TV through the mythtv box and record a show at the same time. You don't > > have to have a capture card available to watch recordings. > > Duh! I forgot about that scenario. Note to self - plan to get another tuner. > > I assume you are just connecting the cable straight from the wall to the capture card? I find this works very well. > > Start with one capture card to get it working. Then you can easily add > > a second card. I installed a PVR-250 in the first box as a second > > card. Takes just a minute or two to add it. You just run mythtv-setup > > again and add the card and video source. The system then starts using > > it. > > I'm glad it's that easy. > Where it got confusing was getting the capture cards in slave backends working. > > I tried a PVR-500 card in the second box... > > Too bad that's not working. But since it's easy to add cards, it sounds like I can > afford to wait until support for that card settles out. > I kept watching the list and it seemed that lots of people have it working. It could be a hardware problem in the card I received. Have not figured out how to test for that yet. I was able to get video and sound going on the first tuner but the second tuner just did not work. The system recognized both tuners but I was unable to adjust the various settings on the second tuner using the tools provided. I found a few people on the list reporting the same exact problem. So it may be a driver issue which why I need to eventually try the 0.3.8 ivtv drivers. > > Right now I'm going to go with just the scenario you describe: everything on this one > box. Already have a 'house server' in the garage providing net connection, etc. I > hope to upgrade it at some point and make it the backend with a bunch of raided, > hot-swap storage. Maybe do video capture too on it. Your idea to do diskless > workstations is a good one. Might even be able to do something fanless! > That is exactly where I want to go with the frontend systems, fanless, silent, cool. No moving parts. Right now the big box with the four 300GB drives in it is not to bad. I only really notice it once it finishes recording a show and runs the commercial flagging job. The processors kick in high gear and the power supply fan revs up. Almost sounds like it is rewinding the show. :) > Just did the ATrpms install of mythtv-suite. That's a lot of packages! But no errors, > thankfully. We'll see how the PVR-350 works now. Good luck, the mythtv project has got to be one of the most useful projects that have come out for a linux type system.