[ale] mythtv hardware question

[Josh Freeman]

speaking of Myth, has anyone got an ATI Radeon 7000 tv-out to work?
I've tried for several weeks, and it apears that the chipset is
defaulting to PAL. I can't find a driver that will make it work with
xorg 6.8

Josh

On 6/14/06, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in the throes of building a mythTV box meself. I got a Shuttle "Zen"
> ST62K barebones, threw a P4 2.4 ghz processor, 512 mb of RAM, and a 400 gb
> hard drive in there, and splurged on a PVR 500. I used knoppmyth R5B7 for
> the initial install.  I haven't actually gotten it to work yet due to ALSA
> issues (which I hope to resolve when next I get some time to hack on it).
>
>  But ivtv recognizes the card (both tuners), and after some initial
> thrashing re loading the firmware from the drive I believe it will actually
> run it as well. I also had little trouble (like, only some minor password
> idiocy on my part) connecting to zap2it and downloading my local program
> listings.
>
>  The big question about speccing a mythTV box seems to be card vs processor
> speed, but a P2.66 should be more than adequate from what I've been able to
> gather.
>
>  BTW BEWARE of the "separate video modes..." choice in the "Options" part of
> mythTV. If you check this blindly, it'll mung X for the "mythtv" user and
> you won't be able to get it back -- at least, I was unable to find where
> those parameters are kept from the command line. Perhaps it fiddles a
> database table. I eventually took the Path of Least Resistance and
> re-installed.
>
>  If you're gonna try to capture audio, you might want to consider getting a
> kool sound card as well.
>
>  I concur with Mr. Farris's recomendations re video cards and capture cards.
>
>  -- CHS
>
>
>
> On 6/14/06, Chris Farris <chris at vitalpowers.com> wrote:
> > If your video card has TV-Out then get the 250 and use the video card to
> > drive X. If your video card lacks TV-Out then get the 350 and use the
> > ivtv-fb to drive X.
> >
> > Other than that, I'd stick w/ 1GB and spend the money on HD space.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Daniel Howard wrote:
> > > Pardon me if I missed the summary of the recent MythTV build-in, I get
> > > ALE in digest mode and do occasionally miss things.
> > >
> > > I'm fed up with my Windows MCE platform for video capture/editing/DVD
> > > creation, and even my Snapstream Win2k box with a Hauppauge USB PVR add
> > > on, which used to do a wonderful job of PVR and video capture, is
> > > refusing to see the capture device now.
> > >
> > > So, I've got a P4, 2.66 GHz box I'm going to add some RAM to get at
> > > least 1 GB, maybe 2GB, add a bigger hard drive, and add a video capture
> > > card to turn it into a MythTV PVR/video editing box using, e.g., Kino.
> > >
> > > After initial Googling, I see that the Hauppauge-PVR 250 is quite
> > > popular for MythTV, and the 350 more capable, but lacking in OpenGL and
> > > optimum X support.  I want to use this box for PVR, video capture from
> > > my digital camcorder, video editing and DVD production, and audio
> > > capture from old vinyl records and reel-to-reel and cassette tapes,
> > > editing, and studio production if possible.  The MythTV site is somewhat
> > > ambiguous about recommending a particular video capture card, does
> > > anyone have a recommendation?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Daniel
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Josh Freeman