Comments on: DVR – PVR Linux Media Center / Digital Video Recorders http://www.philiplawlor.com/dvr-pvr-linux-media-center-digital-video-recorders Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: admin http://www.philiplawlor.com/dvr-pvr-linux-media-center-digital-video-recorders/comment-page-1#comment-2 admin Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:37:38 +0000 http://www.philiplawlor.com/?p=3#comment-2 Well I have run/installed all but the LinuxMCE (primarily since I forgot about that one). I decided to take another tack. The strong point of those CD's is that you can use them as MythTV frontends. As servers they don't work well. My Dell Dimension 8100 with NVidea video is supported only by the full install, I could not get any of the CD's to launch an X window. (I should try again now that I have a really simple ATI PCI card.) I opted for Fedora 7, since 8 just came out and loaded the MythTV via Yum and all went...smooth enough. I have yet to get the TV guide to connect to yet another provider. Worst of all my favorite MythTV plugin, MythWeather is not working and is known to be broken since MSNBC changed their weather feed format. Why didn't the developer use weather.com!!!! Two bucks says i will end up fixing that for everyone. I will post a review and comments on my PVR Server Setup. Well I have run/installed all but the LinuxMCE (primarily since I forgot about that one).

I decided to take another tack. The strong point of those CD’s is that you can use them as MythTV frontends. As servers they don’t work well. My Dell Dimension 8100 with NVidea video is supported only by the full install, I could not get any of the CD’s to launch an X window. (I should try again now that I have a really simple ATI PCI card.)

I opted for Fedora 7, since 8 just came out and loaded the MythTV via Yum and all went…smooth enough. I have yet to get the TV guide to connect to yet another provider. Worst of all my favorite MythTV plugin, MythWeather is not working and is known to be broken since MSNBC changed their weather feed format. Why didn’t the developer use weather.com!!!! Two bucks says i will end up fixing that for everyone.

I will post a review and comments on my PVR Server Setup.

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