Monthly Archives: December 2006

Getting programming information for two tuners.

My new MythTV box will have a pcHDTV 5500 for HD recording and a Hauppauge 250 for standard TV. Getting the programming information working for both so they didn’t stomp on each other was a challenge. The fix is to … Continue reading

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Firewire on MythTV and a DCT6416 III

No dice so far. I’ve got MythTV changing channels on the cable box, but no video. I’ve been following this site: FireWire MythTV …and only get to Test-mpeg before things go south. I’m going to work on this later.

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Fedora Core 6: Dead on Arrival

Fedora Core 6 has an impossible install bug that installs an i586 kernel on i686 machines, but report it as an i686 kernel. This means that everything’s hunky dory after install until you start messing with drivers, say the nVidia … Continue reading

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MythTV installation version 3

I’m working on my third MythTV installation without much success. Of course, the goals are higher: 1) HDTV recording and playback 2) Distributed storage, recording, and playback 3) Games I’ve spent a couple weeks on it already and have not … Continue reading

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