[TriLUG] A Myth TV question, I think

[Brian Phelps]

HD or non HD?  See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HD-PVR
Read the fine print, H.264 720p is huge and tough to play back, even
for a decent machine.  Try downloading the test clip.

Non HD, there are cable capture-cards by hauppage.  I set one up once.
 It was pretty easy.  I only used it for a week or so.  The places you
get the tables from for programming can be a pain, maybe someone else
could elaborate who has more experience with this.

No cable card, you gotta set up your MythTV to change the channel on
the remote cable box via IR right?  I've never done that.  Sounds like
a pain, but I don't know.

The captured files are just movie files.  You could always copy them
over using rsync etc.

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Peeps:
>
> I have cable at home and I'd like very much to record a lot of shows and
> take those shows with me while on vacation, even for my (thankfully)
> frequent weekend getaways.  What's the best way to do this?  Have two Myth
> TV servers, one at each location and record to a big old honkin' 2 TB disk
> pack?  I'd prefer not to take an entire computer with me if at all possible.
>
> How easy is this to set up and get running?  I suspect the home server would
> connect to the cable system that we have with Time Warner.  At the beach
> we're soon not going to have a cable provider.  I should be able to output
> via RCA or HDMI, right?
>
> Greg
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