[Cialug] OT: used DirectTV tuner (was Myth Games)

Tony Bibbs tony at tonybibbs.com
Wed Nov 23 10:04:33 CST 2005


On a myth related note, anybody know if there is a place in town (or any 
of you) to get used directtv tuners?  I don't have one that has a USB or 
firewire port and I'd prefer one in order to do the lirc channel 
changing.  I know there is an alternative to this but I'd prefer the 
near immediate response time the usb/firewire option would give me.

--Tony

Tony Bibbs wrote:
> On the same note, a guy here at work has the same problems with a 
> similar setup.  He also found his frontends (lowly refurb'ed laptops) 
> didn't have enough juice as well.  So, in short, if you go the HD route, 
> be willing to spend the big bucks on the hardware.
> 
> --Tony
> 
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
>> I have a PCHDTV 3000 card.  It needs more processor than I have right now
>> AMD Athlon XP3000 or someesuch. To really make it go.  I've successfully
>> recorded regular resolution programming off OTA HDTV but not high
>> resolution.
>>
>> I left off during my game message too.  To play thing like tuxracer 
>> you need
>> a bit more CPU and graphics capability than most people have in a 
>> computer
>> for watching TV.
>>
>> But, if you are doing HDTV, you may have that much horsepower around.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Champion [mailto:dave at visionary.com] Sent: Tuesday, 
>> November 22, 2005 4:49 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Myth Games
>>
>>
>> Er... I think I ended that email in mid-thought. Anyway, there are mdk 
>> rpm packages for most of the common Myth modules. It's really easy to 
>> install & maintain it, so unless you need some custom stuff, why go 
>> thru all the pain of building it with Gentoo?
>>
>> Speaking of Myth... has anyone investigated HD tuner cards with Myth? 
>> My brother was looking at building a Myth box, but wants HD, since he 
>> has a HDTV.
>>
>> -dc
>>
>> David Champion wrote:
>>
>>> I'm runnig mythv on Mandriva, it's now part of one of the extended
>>> sources (don't recall off-hand if it's in contrib or plf).
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
>>> Tom Pohl wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Personally, I'm a fan of using mythtv RPMs on top of Fedora Core 
>>>> 4.   http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php When I ran knoppmyth, 
>>>> upgrading
>>>> seemed to be quite broken (probably not the case now).
>>>>
>>>> The only frustration I've had thus far with this configuration is
>>>> wanting ffmpeg with aac support so I can create RSS feeds for my  
>>>> ipod :)  If anyone knows where such a pre-compiled beast might 
>>>> exist  I'd be eternally grateful.  I've tried recompiling, but 
>>>> things seem  to be more broken than I have time in the day to fix!
>>>>
>>>> -Tom
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 22, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, seems that versions of Knoppmyth break things and I'd rather
>>>>> just stick with what I know given how finniky all this stuff can  
>>>>> be.  The setup was pretty painful but once I get this working  
>>>>> hopefully it'll run for a year or more before I get the upgrade  
>>>>> urge again.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am, however, using knoppmyth for frontends.
>>>>>
>>>>> --Tnoy
>>>>>
>>>>> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Depends on your machine and whether you are into MAME.
>>>>>> I like it to play frozen bubble sometimes.
>>>>>> Otherwise....
>>>>>> Is there a reason you went the gentoo way instead of knoppmyth?   
>>>>>> Knoppmyth
>>>>>> puts games moives, dvd ripper mythphone mythweb - just gads of
>>>>>> stuff on
>>>>>> without any effort.  Then it's just up to you to tune it and load  
>>>>>> any other
>>>>>> video drivers etc. you may need.
>>>>>> -nate
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony at tonybibbs.com] Sent: Tuesday,  
>>>>>> November 22, 2005 8:46 AM
>>>>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>>>>> Subject: [Cialug] Myth Games
>>>>>> Is Myth Games worth the work?  I grabbed whatever the default  
>>>>>> version of xmame is from Portage and when I go to the games  
>>>>>> submenu it complains that the version of xmame isn't supported.   
>>>>>> Then I got to thinking it may not be worth fixing the problem,  
>>>>>> then I got to thinking it would be 'cool' if for no other reason  
>>>>>> the simple selfish geek satisfaction. Anybody else using Myth Games?
>>>>>> ...and is there a way to figure out what version of xmame will  
>>>>>> work with   Myth 0.18?
>>>>>> --Tony
>>>>>> Bryan Baker wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or - do what is considered best practice on the platform and
>>>>>>> leave  root
>>>>>>> alone, and sudo any commands that need root priv's. most of the   
>>>>>>> time that ammounts to "sudo vi smb.conf" or whatever.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 9:07 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Or you can do sudo -s and get a root shell that way too
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dan
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 20:59 -0600, Tom Pohl wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sudo passwd root
>>>>>>>>> to set root's password and then you can su like any other box :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -Tom
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ok, this is the first time I've done something like this on
>>>>>>>>>> OSX.  I need root priv's but can't seem to get it.  FWIW this  
>>>>>>>>>> is a new box...what do I need to do?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --Tony
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> You can change the share name it exports from osx box with.   
>>>>>>>>>>> I  don't remember off top of my head on the regular desktop  if
>>>>>>>>>>> you can do it easily, but worst case since you have your  
>>>>>>>>>>> share already setup,  just edit /etc/smb.conf and change the  
>>>>>>>>>>> share name.  You'll have to reboot or just restart samba  
>>>>>>>>>>> services with SystemStarter restart samba. Dan
>>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 19:47 -0600, Tony Bibbs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've got a mostly working MythTV box on Gentoo.  I'd like to
>>>>>>>>>>>> simply mount my iTunes library on my OSX box from Gentoo.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> First problem is samba shares don't seem to like spaces in
>>>>>>>>>>>> the name.  Or , at least, I don't know how to make them 
>>>>>>>>>>>> work  via fstab.  The file system I'm trying to mount is:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> //server/user/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> If there is a way to put that in fstab please holla.  I  tried
>>>>>>>>>>>> a few different things ("iTunes\ Music", etc) to no  avail.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> My other thought was to simply symlink //server/user/
>>>>>>>>>>>> MusicSymLink to the iTunes folder but that gives errors  
>>>>>>>>>>>> about a bad share name.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ideas?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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