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mhelios
2004-02-12, 08:45 AM CST
A snip from the Introduction:

MythTV is an open-source project, with its primary functionality being similar to that of TiVo, but with several way-cool add-ons and much greater flexibility.


If you've a TV capture card (see hardware section for a list of known-working cards), then you may be interested in setting this up.

Find it here:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
iamkrishnan
2004-02-19, 08:00 AM CST
Great article.
ewdi
2004-02-19, 08:04 AM CST
i tried it but the capture is pretty decent except some problem i'm having due to my slow system, it will be a small lag in between recording
kcpavan
2005-06-16, 12:08 AM CDT
ANybody know whetehr Dell Inspiuron 600m has TV capture card in it?
Trek1701
2007-01-04, 10:31 AM CST
Hi,

I installed mythtv following the how-to but now every time I try to watch tv I receive this:
Could not connect to the master backend server -- is it running?
Is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct?
On setup I leave the default configuration (IP 127.0.0.1).
I have no idea of what I should change.

Thanks,
Trek1701
csfalcon
2007-01-04, 01:24 PM CST
ANybody know whetehr Dell Inspiuron 600m has TV capture card in it?

no, it doesn't.
mitchell2345
2007-01-10, 03:29 PM CST
Hi,

I installed mythtv following the how-to but now every time I try to watch tv I receive this:
Could not connect to the master backend server -- is it running?
Is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct?
On setup I leave the default configuration (IP 127.0.0.1).
I have no idea of what I should change.

Thanks,
Trek1701

make sure mythbackend is running.

mythbackend

do this in terminal, post any errors.

Mitchell
pete_1967
2007-01-10, 04:19 PM CST
If you only want a media box, install KnoppMyth (http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html)
SuperNu
2007-01-10, 10:00 PM CST
If you are looking for Fedora Core RPMs for mythtv, ATrpms (http://www.atrpms.net) has them. Here (http://www.atrpms.net/dist/fc6/mythtv/) are the RPMs for FC6. I would make sure you have a card that can record in mpeg format in hardware such as the Hauppauge PVR (http://www.hauppauge.com/) series of cards. Some of thses cards use the ivtv kernel modules (http://www.ivtvdriver.org/).

--SN