The PVR
- Monday June 26th, 2006
So I decided to join the world of PVR owners. I got some kit, did a mountain of Googling and then started to install and put things together. Things initially went well. I was aiming for a MythTV on Gentoo with free to air initally and then adding Foxtel later. Gentoo install is, as always, fairly smooth. A few little annoying problems - Portage version messes and the like. Why it can’t be like ports I have no idea. Ports compiles JUST WORK. But I got it up and running. Then the tuner cards. That’s when shit started to go pear- shaped. First tuner card - Linux drivers are for an older chipset - no new drivers. So that card - dead. Other card - works but only one tuner (the USB based one) - other tuner? Who knows why - I dmesg’ed and google errors and tried driver after driver after modules etc etc etc. Finally, I decide ‘fuck it’ I’ll get it going with one tuner and come back. Does MythTV want to use that one working tuner? Oh no. It doesn’t. After some considerable mucking around I also went ‘fuck it’. So Plan B was enacted. Plan B totally betrays my open source roots but I figured it was worth a try. So I installed Microsoft Media Center. And you know what? It fucking worked first time. A little fiddling, considerably less though than MythTV, and it all worked. Guide, tuners, recording … everything. All worked first time.
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