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I'm a believer
Dec. 4th, 2004 11:49 pmOK, I did a bit more messing around with MythTV today. The install I did is sacrificial, just seeing how it works.
I now believe that it works. I trivially got it playing DVDs, full screen, including original DVDs with CSS intact. No menus, but I understand that works under some players, and I'm not terribly worried about that. The important thing is that it played something and it looked good. I honestly hadn't seen any player look good under Linux before this.
I didn't get the capture working right, but I'm not really worried about that anyway, it wasn't the card I wanted to use. I did digitize some nice static; the input selection dev entry wasn't happy and I wasn't going to spend much time on getting something working that I wasn't really interested in using anyway.
So at this point I'm willing to believe it's going to work. Now I let it sit for a month or so, and see if it still seems like a good idea then or whether this is just my geeky neurons having a gadget party. Also by then the community may have drivers for the new Hauppauge PVR-150 card, which is not only cheaper, it's believed to be better. You can get the things for as little as $80 with the remote, $65 without. The output card of choice is currently an Apollo/nVidia 5200, which has VGA, SVideo, and DVI outputs.
Oh yeah, got the Dish Network receiver tuned up a bit more too; I moved the power LED over which let the IR sensor be placed right in the center of the window, so it works better. Also discovered the problem with the IR blaster; I must have shorted something during testing before, and blew a fuse resistor (2 ohm 1/8 watt) - replaced that and we're back in business. Programmed a few more remote control buttons that I missed. Watched bits of HPPoA with Tom, who was not going to SEMGS due to being a 7-year-old.
I now believe that it works. I trivially got it playing DVDs, full screen, including original DVDs with CSS intact. No menus, but I understand that works under some players, and I'm not terribly worried about that. The important thing is that it played something and it looked good. I honestly hadn't seen any player look good under Linux before this.
I didn't get the capture working right, but I'm not really worried about that anyway, it wasn't the card I wanted to use. I did digitize some nice static; the input selection dev entry wasn't happy and I wasn't going to spend much time on getting something working that I wasn't really interested in using anyway.
So at this point I'm willing to believe it's going to work. Now I let it sit for a month or so, and see if it still seems like a good idea then or whether this is just my geeky neurons having a gadget party. Also by then the community may have drivers for the new Hauppauge PVR-150 card, which is not only cheaper, it's believed to be better. You can get the things for as little as $80 with the remote, $65 without. The output card of choice is currently an Apollo/nVidia 5200, which has VGA, SVideo, and DVI outputs.
Oh yeah, got the Dish Network receiver tuned up a bit more too; I moved the power LED over which let the IR sensor be placed right in the center of the window, so it works better. Also discovered the problem with the IR blaster; I must have shorted something during testing before, and blew a fuse resistor (2 ohm 1/8 watt) - replaced that and we're back in business. Programmed a few more remote control buttons that I missed. Watched bits of HPPoA with Tom, who was not going to SEMGS due to being a 7-year-old.
