[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux Video Recorder is not a Myth

[Mike]

I asked this question months ago.. and it fell onto the back 
burner because the cheap winTV reciever I bought at that 
time didn't have linux support.

However, This weeks Frye's ad has a PCI TV reciever card for 
35 bucks. The AverTV card works plug-n-play in Mandrake 9. 

Mandrake's built in XAWTV records, but only in stacked jpeg 
images or uncompressed AVI format. (meaning huge 
filespace-time ratios) I've searched for new TV apps again, 
and found Myth TV.  Which seems to be fairly complete. It 
doesn't encode into mpeg, but does support OGG Vorbis and 
some other compression technologies that are similar.

Does anyone have mythtv 0.8.0 getting broadcast TV listings 
for this area?  any pointers to achieving this? will it be 
possible over dialup internet, or does it expect/need 
highspeed or realtime online capabilities? Anyone have myth 
able to record directly into MPEG2 @ 24 or 29 frames a 
second (VCD rates)? 

Myth Info at : 
http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures

Red Hat 8.0 - 8.1 (and Mandrake?) RPM's at:
http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh80/mythtv/