[NTLUG:Discuss] Some background on tomorrow's meeting, Saturday 10/19

[Stuart A Johnston]

I should point out that MythTV + HDHomerun is not 100% perfect.  Last 
night it did this:  http://i.imgur.com/3s48sEx.png

Not sure what is up with that.  I do sometimes get blips and drops on 
recordings. But, most of the time it works well and I still prefer the 
interface over my cablebox DVR.


On 10/22/2013 12:04 PM, Preston Hagar wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Peter Hanson <peter.e.hanson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Preston Hagar <prestonh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If anyone has setup mythTV or some other OTA on Linux, I would be
>>> interested in your methods.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>   I'm currently using a USB Hauppage
>>> TV tuner, that more or less works, but I had to rig up my own recording
>>> scripts because I couldn't find any "pre-packaged" ones that work.  I
>> also
>>> still get frame drop outs even though if I watch the same signal from the
>>> same antenna directly on the TV, it is clear.  My guess is it has
>> something
>>> to do with my recording script and possibly either the hard drives aren't
>>> keeping up with the volume of data, or perhaps the TV tuner card driver
>> is
>>> buggy.
>>>
>>> Anyway, if anyone has a TV tuner card that works well in Linux with the
>> new
>>> digital TV signals,  I would love a recommendation
>>
>>
>> I've been relying on MythTV for years. This configuration has evolved over
>> time. It is more than enough for my needs. Even though broadcast TV is
>> almost all I watch, I rarely need to record 3 shows at once. This setup can
>> record 3 HD files at once with no file corruption. The HDhomerun tuner is a
>> hassle-free appliance. I have no experience with USB tuners.
>>
>> Location & antenna:
>> ..My house is in zip code 75243 (~30 miles from the broadcast antennas)
>> ..I use a Channelmaster 4228 antenna mounted on my chimney.
>> ..cable run is more than 100ft of RG-6 cable, a 2-way splitter in the
>> attic, then a 3-way splitter near the tuners.
>>
>> Tuner 1 & Tuner 2:
>> ..dual-tuner HDHomerun through 100Mb/s Fast Ethernet.
>>
>> Server (MythTV Backend & Tuner 3):
>> ..processor: AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 (dual core, up to 2.1GHz)
>> ..motherboard: Asus M2A-VM HDMI (AMD 690G Chipset)
>> ....network: Gigabit Ethernet
>> ..distribution: mythbuntu 12.04 w/ MythTV 0.27
>> ..hard drive: 1TB Samsung "green" drive
>> ....file system for recordings: XFS (seemed like a good idea ~2006)
>> ..tuner: PCHDTV-3000 PCI tuner card (kernel module is cx88_dvb)
>>
>> Playback (mythtv frontend)
>> ..motherboard & processor: Asus AT3IONT-I (Atom 330 & NVidia graphics)
>> ....network: Gigabit Ethernet
>> ..distribution: mythbuntu 12.04 (using proprietary NVidia driver for VDPAU
>> accelerated playback of Mpeg-2)
>>
>> Available MythTV features that I do not use:
>> ..Using different antennas / sources for each tuner
>> ..Automated transcoding from native MPeg2 to h.264, etc.
>> ..Serving recordings (native or transcoded) over LAN using DLNA
>> ..Streaming recordings from the server's MythWeb interface
>>
>> If that didn't answer your question, let me know.
>> Peter
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>
> I may have to just breakdown and setup myth.  I've been using Freevo for a
> frontend for the one TV the computer is directly connected to, and I like
> it better than myth for its simplicity.  I currently have 2 x 2TB drives in
> software RAID 1 for storage.  I've been using a script I wrote that uses dd
> on the video device to record the live video from the Hauppage 850 tuner I
> have.  It works well, but like I said previously, I sometimes get skips and
> dropouts.  I might have to look into an HDHomerun.
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