[ale] MythTV/similar hardware recommendations

[Alex Carver]

In my case, yes, I need a capture device to acquire the video from the
satellite receiver.  No streams.

On 2016-03-30 17:27, Boris Borisov wrote:
> Do we need capture card with this PVR or we are recording digital stream?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:02 PM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com 
> <mailto:djpfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     The back-ends can run on the same box.  TVHeadend was the most stable at one
>     point.  I tried to get that working and failed - on two different systems.  The
>     only way I had **any** success was using NextPVR (windows) as the backend and it
>     would lock up if I tried to FFwd or pause or change channels or  get new
>     schedule data or ...  or ... or ... or .... looked at it funny.
> 
>     If Chuck knows how to make this stuff work, fantastic!  I'd love some help too.
> 
>     On 03/30/2016 04:10 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>     >
>     > I looked at that link and it says Kodi needs a PVR backend.  Then it has
>     > a link to the next page of the wiki which lays out  a list of PVR
>     > backends and none of them are Kodi, one is MythTV.  So I still have to
>     > run MythTV in addition to running Kodi.  If I'm missing something, I'm
>     > not seeing it on those pages.