Please post your Functional/Non Functional Hardware

[port443]

Hardware
Motherboard: ZOTAC GF9300-D-E LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 HDMI WiFi Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
CPU: Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
RAM: 2Gb (2x1Gb) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N6/1G
Video Card: onboard (HDMI)
Sound Card: onboard (via HDMI)
HD: 4Gb Sandisk Contour USB Flash Drive
Remote: Mediagate GP-IR01BK Vista MCE Remote Control
Tuners: none
Country: Canada
TV provider: none
TV signal type: none
Mythbuntu Version: 9.04

Additional: case (temporary) APEX MI-100; Pico-PSU 120; Cooljag fanless heatsink; single 120mm noiseblocker XL1 fan = no noise :)

Performance
One issue so far: big DVDRip (or BlurayRip), 8.2Gb, ~15Mbit/sec, MKV plays with some hiccups. Network or CPU seem not to be an issue.

[wackston]

Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS M2NPV-VM Graphics Nvidia nForce430 chipsey
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 6000
RAM: 2Gb SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N6/1G
Video Card: Onboard NVIDIA 6150 (HDMI)
Sound Card: onboard (via SPDIF)
HD: Myth-TV backend via Gbit Ethernet (onboard)
Remote: none
Tuners: 3 x Hauppauge Nova-S2 1xHauppauge WinTV Nexus-S 1x Hauppauge WinTV Nova S-plus (on dedicated mythtv backend)
Country: Germany
TV provider: Astra 19.2E and 28E
TV signal type: DVB-S and DVB-S2
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Performance
SDTV - perfect
720p and 1080i - rare tearing high on frame but stable jitter-free playback (BIG exception H.264 streams whose profile is affected by known ffmpeg bug).
Needed to adjust CPU throttling threshold for HDTV.
Heavy CPU load during HDTV playback needing excessive fan activity on PSU. (Gonna move to VDPAU and a single-core CPU).
Rare crashes of front-end - not easily reproducible.
Hanging/crashing of front-end when backend attempts to tune DVB-S2 channels with DVB-S tuner.

[matt06]

Hardware
Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend (currently headless)
MB: Abit IS7-V2
CPU: P4 3.0GHz
RAM: 2.0GB DDR 1.0GB DDR
Video: NVidia GeForce 5500 128MB AGP
Audio: Onboard, ICH5
LAN: Realtek-8169 PCI 1Gbps
HD: 160GB (various IDE) + 1TB Hitachi ST6OA31B (SATA)
Tuners: (2) Hauppauge HVR-1600 PCI
Signal: Analog Cable x 2 + OTA Digital x 2
OS/Software: Mythbuntu 9.10

Performance
Compiled and installed latest v4l-dvb drivers (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600#Drivers) (info might be out of date). Both analog and digital works, but MythTV scanner missed a few digital channels until antenna positioning was tweaked. Cable company only offers few digital clear-QAM channels so I use strictly OTA digital.

I also tweaked /etc/X11/xorg.conf for video performance and other issues with my GeForce 5500. I've been running this as a backend since 11-2008 and upgraded 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 without any major issues. I also periodically compile and install the newest v4l-dvb drivers. This is also my file/music/picture/video server for my Windows network using CIFS shared folders.

Edit: added an additional GB of RAM, no perceived performance difference. Frontend reports that backend is using up to 1.9GB used after watching a show, but normally 400-1800MB 400-600MB when idle.

Hardware
Setup: Frontend Only
MB: P4M900-M4
CPU: Celeron 2.0GHz
RAM: 1GB DDR2
Video: ASUS GeForce 8400GS 512MB[G98] (SVideo out)
Audio: Ensoniq ES1371 PCI
LAN: Onboard VIA VT6102 [Rhine-II]
HD: RiDATA 4GB RDCF4G-233X-LIG CF IDE + SYBA SD-CF-IDE-A Adapter
Remote: MCEUSB2 (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/File:MCE-Remote-2-v1069.jpg) (comes with Hauppauge HVR-1600)
OS/Software: Mythbuntu 9.10 + fixes

Performance
I tweaked /etc/X11/xorg.conf for video performance and other issues with my GeForce 4 MX 4000 GeForce 8400. I mount CIFS shares over the network in /etc/fstab which gives me access to my music, pictures and videos in MythTV. I also changed "swappiness (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#What%20is%20swappiness%20and%20how%20do%20 I%20change%20it?)" to 10 since I'm using a CF card, but I still have about 120MB 330MB swap that is almost never used.

Still working on getting suspend/resume working (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8448447&highlight=nvagp#post8448447) on the frontend with NVidia drivers set to NvAGP 1 and acceptable HD playback. Other than that, I'm a happy camper. Edit: this no longer applies to my current frontend, but left for reference since I had fixed it (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8487456&highlight=nvagp#post8487456).

Edit: built a new frontend to replace my old one. ATSC HD playback is fine with the Celeron 2.0 and 8400GS using VDPAU. Had trouble with onboard audio on the new board as well so I used the same PCI sound card. Removed MythGame and the MS Gamepad since I have no time.

Hardware
Setup: Spare Frontend
MB: Abit IS7-V2
CPU: P4 3.0GHz
RAM: 512MB DDR
Video: NVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 128MB AGP (SVideo out)
Audio: (onboard)
LAN: Onboard Realtek-8139 100Mbps
HD: RiDATA 8GB CF IDE + SYBA SD-CF-IDE-A Adapter
Gamepad: Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad (Gameport)
Remote: n/a
OS/Software: Xubuntu 9.10 + Mythbuntu Control Center + MythTV fixes

Performance
See above.

Many Thanks to Linux, Ubuntu, v4l, cx18, lirc, MythTV, MythBuntu and all other developers!!

[voyteckst]

Hardware
Setup: Frontend and Backend
MB: Asus P5Q-EM
CPU: C2D E8400
RAM: 4GB DDR
Video: Radeon HD5770
Audio: Integrated
LAN: Onboard Realtek
HD: WD 320GB
Tuners: AverTV Trinity A707 (Analog, DVB-T, DVB-S)
Remote: Logitech Dinovo Mini
OS/Software: Mythbuntu 9.10

Problems:
- TV Tuner completely doesn't work...
- had to install PulseAudio to change audio output to HDMI
- had to install some apps to change default (very very small) QT apps fonts
- had to upgrade fgrlx, because default did not support my graphic card

[myth_cougar]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H
CPU: AMD 4850e
RAM: 2Gb DDR2 800
Video Card: HD3200 (Integrated)
Tried NVidia GT220
Sound Card: Integrated
HD: 1x1Tb Seagate SATA 1x500Gb Seagate SATA
Remote: Hauppage via PVR-350
Tuners: Hauppage PVR-350 (connected to Sky+ s-video)
Hauppage Nova T-500
Country: UK
TV provider: Freeview
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Performance
The above works quite well, currently used for standard def, as I haven't any hi def stuff. Originally tried an NVidia GT220, but this had poor performance from the open source driver and the nvidia drivers need to be at least version 190 (karmic has 185). I did manage to install the 190 drivers from avenard along with the updated mythtv (a trial in itself), but I found stability to be an issue along with an annoying freeze for several seconds at a time and a loss of sound. Tried various suggested fixes but without success.

My original reason for aquiring an nvidia card was due to image tearing in video playback on the HD3200 which I couldn't find a fix for (this was using mythdora btw). Buying the gt220 was the opportunity to update to mythbuntu, but I was dissapointed with the gt220, I guess I have to wait for the software to catch up. I found a thread regarding the video tearing on the hd3200 suggesting the radeonhd driver, so I removed the gt220 and reinstalled mythbuntu on a separate partition, intalling the radeon driver and then updating to the radeonhd driver in edgers repo. After configuring xorg.conf, including the hdmi audio options, video is tear free, audio is via hdmi and no problems with freezing. Minor glitches have been seen in playback which have coincided with autoexpire messages appearing in the logs, so I am looking into what is going on there. Otherwise playback is smooth.

One thing I still have to sort out is the remote. I selected the hauppage remote (several different options here), but none appear to be working. Shouldn't be to big a problem to sort out, currently using a wireless keyboard/mouse so no rush.

[User X]

Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS ? (nforce 4 chipset)
CPU: AMD Athalon 64 X2 3800+
RAM: 4Gb DDR 400
Video Card: BFG Tech Nvidia 9600 GT
Sound Card: SB Audigy X-Fi
HD: 1x 40Gb for OS, and 1x 200Gb for recordings
Remote: iPhone, running Hippo remote (highly recomended)
Tuners: Hauppauge HVR-1250
Country: USA
TV provider: OTA DTV
TV signal type: ATSC
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10 frontend/backend

Performance
Performance is good. Live TV is excelent, I am having a problem with recording image quality, but I expect I will be able to solve the issue. Everything worked without any tweaking so far. I have also added the Hulu Desktop application and launch it from the MythTV frontend. Video from hulu is good - not the best.

edit: The recording playback problem was resolved by enabling VDPAU playback profiles, and now the performance is excelent. I will be adding a remote and possibly another tuner to the system shortly. Viewing ATSC in HD, recording in HD, and playback in HD all work very well. Schedules direct was added for programing information and integration was seamless. This seems to be a very stable configuration so far.

edit: Added remote reference, added Boxee and launch it through MythTV. The Hippo Remote is a VNC app for the iPhone that has native support for Ubuntu and profiles for boxee and hulu built in. Also works as a remote trackpad and keyboard in Ubuntu for doing all sorts of computer tasks that would otherwise require me to have a wireless keyboard and mouse in my living room. Quite happy with the current set up!

[brianko]

Update:

Hardware
MainBoad: Asus M2N-E
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ dual core
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: nVidia nForce 570 Ultra
HDD: WD 500MB PATA
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-350
Sound Card: onboard

I now consider this setup non-functional. After freezing on fast-forward during playback, the sound dropped from all recorded tracks. No one seems to be able to resolve the issue. I do not recommend this hardware setup. (In addition, it appears that PVR-350 support is deprecated in the latest version of Mythbuntu (9.10); indeed, an upgrade to 9.10 was unsuccessful).

Some additional research indicates problems with AMD dual-core processors. Might be something to be wary of as well. Good luck, as I've given up on Mythbuntu.

[jquintana]

Hello, all. I'm new to MythTV and Ubuntu all together. I'm looking to re-use some existing hardware (CPUs) but I do realize I will need a new motherboard. I would like a motherboard with on-board HDMI output to use with my TV.

The main purpuse of my system is to store HD content from my Comcast cable box, HD movies, music, and picture slideshows. I would like to use MythBuntu 9.10 as I have already tested it out on a Virtual Machine and am happy with it.

I would like to use either a P4 or AMD Sempron 3200+ that I have laying around.

RAM, HDD, and case are not issues. I just need a good motherboard with HDMI output.

Thanks for the help.

[liquidonline]

Hi guys,

Just installed mythbuntu 9.10, I've been a long time ubuntu user and finally got "with the program" and got an LCDTV. First order of business was an HTPC of course! There is (what appears to be) an unresolvable showstopper problem right now which is pushing me to buy Win 7 home to run xbmc on...

Hardware
Motherboard: Abit IL-90MV intel VIIV technology w/onboard HDMI
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 (2.0ghz)
RAM: 4Gb DDR2 667 (3.5 visible)
Video Card: onboard intel GMA 950
Sound Card: integrated Realtek 7.1 HD audio w/spdif in/out
HD: 500GB seagate
Remote: ebay mini wireless kb/trackball
Tuners: none yet
Country: Canada
TV provider: Will be going with FTA to onboard DVB/DVA HD tuner to complement my expressvu subscription :)

TV signal type: N/A
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10 frontend/backend

What doesn't work: Audio over HDMI. I've tried everything I can find so far and this IS a show stopper for me because the audio out of the 3.5mm audio cable sucks

Given how the intel video driver works with the windows driver (according to the manual) I'm open, reluctantly, to the possibility it's related to the intel driver - but I'm doubtful.

[pnauta]

Hi,

I've been using Mythtv since 7.10, had a lot of trouble but it's getting there now.

Hardware
Motherboard: Asus M3N78-EM
CPU: AMD 5050e
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: NVidia 8300 on board
Sound Card: Realtek ALC1200 7.1 HD audio w/SPDIF out
HD: 1,5TB Samsung Spinpoint Green 5400RPM
Remote: Logitech Harmony One
Tuners: Digital Everywhere FloppyDTV DVB-T with Conax CAM and subscription card
Country: Netherlands
TV provider: Digitenne (DVB-T)
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10 frontend/backend
Receiver: Sony STR-DB 930 5.1 with SPDIF in
TV: Samsung LE40B530 (1080p) 3 X HDMI, SPDIF out

What doesn't work: Struggled with audio/video at first, but finally have everything working. I can record any channel from Digitenne (also encrypted commercial channels) Sometimes recording multiple channels fails. Sometimes ISO's of DVD's I ripped don't work, these same ISO's work when I play them using VLC on Windows. Also, the EDID data for my TV is wrong so VLC has enormous fonts which make it impossible to use.

[baldydonald]

Hardware
Acer Revo 3600
CPU: dual core intel atom N330
RAM: 1G
Video Card: nvidia ION
Sound Card: on-board
HD: not using it, so don't know if the CPU can cope
Remote: Hauppauge WinTV 35 key "wafer-thin" DSR-0112
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T USB Dual Tuner
Country: UK
TV provider: UK Freeview
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Performance
In short: very good:
When idle or recording, gnome system-monitor indicates a total CPU load of <10%
When playing non-HD video, total CPU load around 10-15%
About 50% of memory used by file cache, 20% or so by programs (
Using nvidia 185 drivers, and &quot;VDPAU Normal&quot; playback profile.
Remote works, but is not the best device in the world (will post config files etc) - I use a wireless keyboard/trackball, which works out of the tin - http://www.gizoo.co.uk/Products/PCGaming/Wireless/WirelessKeyboard.htm and is conveniently small
Not using HDMI: using VGA output through a GRANDTEC HAND VIEW III VGA TO TV adaptor (one of the many cables it comes with has a scart plug connected to a VGA plug & 3.5mm audio socket) - some screen tearing, and frame loss leading to jerky images, but still very watchable. Screen tear and frame loss appears to be a function of the VGA adaptor, because plugging in a Samsung SyncMaster 913v VGA LCD monitor in instead does not exhibit either symptom.
Some issues with tuning the USB stick, occasionally has lots of corruption, switch channels (retune to different mux), switch back and everything is ok - not sure if this is a card/driver problem, or reception (signal strengths are between 79% and 95%, so seems unlikely?)

[aovermy]

hardware: nforce 2 motherboard with AMD XP 2400 CPU
6 SATA drives, 1 PATA drive
1 FusionHDTV USB ATSC tuner
1 nxt2004 ATI HDWonder ATSC tuner
1 nxt2002 Air2PC v 2 ATSC tuner (flexcop variant, not broadcom)
1 Plextor M402U USB NTSC device (SVIDEO + LR audio from dish receiver)
1 NVIDIA 6200 video card

The hardest part I had was getting past booting! The grub 2 (and even legacy grub) is not happy when drives shift (that is, linux sees /dev/hdg as 7th drive, but bios sees it as first drive because it's PATA). I finally had to boot with alternate install CD from ubuntu, install lilo bootloader, then install the mythbuntu-control-desktop to convert the ubuntu to mythbuntu.

The Fusion HDTV game me no trouble, it was set up out of the box.

The ATI HDWonder had to get nxt2004 firmware using the get_dvb_firmware.pl script from the linuxtv.org site. I knew from past experience the Fusion tuner used bluebird, so I just did a locate for that file and put the nxt2004 file in the same place.

The plextor device uses the go7007 driver, which I found at go7007.imploder.org. All I had to do was install the tools needed to build a kernel plus libncurses5-dev, then run make and make install. Then I needed to copy the file in the driver source at udev/go7007_firmware_load to /usr/sbin because the make install puts the wrong file there.

The air2pc v 2 was a nightmare! The get_dvb_firmware.pl file no longer works to retrieve the nxt2002 firmware because the web site it's using has changed the file, so the offsets and hashes don't match anymore. Fortunately I had an old copy from an old mythtv install lying around, so I was able to use it.

It's all working now. I'm able to record and watch on another machine. I've tested all the tuners and they all work appropriately.

The intent is that this hardware will only be used for backend purposes, while a couple of different machines with VDPAU capable video cards will be the frontends.

[caravanman]

Hardware
AMD64
1gb ram
Graphics Nvidia GeForce 6600LE

Performance
About 30 seconds after the desktop has loaded Computer Freezes

[jmagee]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte M85M-US2H (rev 1.2)
CPU: AMD Sempron 2.7Ghz (AM3)
RAM: 4GB Kingston
Video Card: On MB
Sound Card: On MB
HD: 1TB WD Caviar Green
Remote: Hauppauge
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T (PCI)
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: UK
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: Freeview
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10 9.10

Performance

Everything smooth apart from the remote, which didn't work out of the box. Followed the guidance @ http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu2.php and was sent appropriate config files by a friend, tho I suspect good google-fu would produce the files too.

Big thanks to the Mythbuntu people for a very nice product, very nice to see FOSS with a strong emphasis on usability.

EDIT: Forgot to say, installed from flash disk, using UNetBootIn. Previously, had put Ubuntu on a netbook via this method and had to manually edit grub files, but for this install, no trouble at all.

[dougsnell]

I don't believe I've ever posted my hardware. I've had it running for a few years now. The main system is an Everex gPC. Low power, but it has very few problems for standard def.

Hardware
CPU: VIA C7-D 1.5 Ghz
RAM: 512 gb VIA UniChrome Pro Shared video memory (UMA) (64 Mb reserved)
Remote: Logitech Harmony One (configured as a PVR 350)
HD: Upgraded over time to a 2 Tb WD "green" drive (again, low power ... low noise)
Tuners:
Hauppauge PVR-350
Hauppauge PVR 500 (dual tuner)

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Required to use PVR 350 HowTo's; current is 9.04.

Sound Card: on-board
Country: US
TV provider: Comcast
TV signal type: Standard Cable
Mythbuntu Version: 9.04

Performance
Probably sad that I spent more on the tuners than the system. I also spent nearly as much on simply the HD upgrade.

[ViktorB]

Hardware
Motherboard: Asus P5QPL-VM EPU
CPU: Intel Pentium E6300 Dual Core
RAM: Kingston 4GB 1333Mhz DDR3
Video Card: Intel on board GMA5400
Sound Card: Realtec on board 887
HD: Western Digital 160GB for the system and Samsung HD321KJ for the media
Remote: So far Mouse and Keyboard
Tuners:Hauppauge Nova 500 HD (Dual DVB-T) and Hauppauge HVR-4000 (DVB-T)
Country: Sweden
TV provider: Free channels
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Performance:
New to Linux it took me a while to get it up and running. Spent some time over Christmas puting it together with both Backend and Frontend on the same system. It's been working fine over a month. Records nicely five channels simultaniously, where one is HD quality. Not that I expect to need that level of performance, but it works.

Next is to get a Remote working. Would be nice to control from an Andriod, or iPad.

[philaphonic]

Hardware
Motherboard: MSI 785GM-E65
CPU: Athlon II X2 250 3 GHz
RAM: 2 GB Kingston DDR3 1333 MHz
Video Card: onboard ATI 4200 GPU
Sound Card: onboard Realtek ALC888S/ALC889
HD1: Western Digital WD1600BEKT 160 GB
HD2: Western Digital WD10EADS 1 TB
Case: Antec Fusion black
Remote: included with case
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-500
Country: USA
TV provider: Comcast
TV signal type: analog cable
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Performance
Live TV and recording/playback are functional, have not tested most other features. Graphics are buggered (video tearing; resolution and vertical hold issues) due, I assume, to my using the onboard ATI graphics. Also, using an outboard VGA-to-TV converter for my basic analog TV which accepts S-video. Have several nagging problems with the case's LCD display.

[wirepuller134]

Hardware
Motherboard: don't know, would have to open it.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 2 cores
RAM: 3 GB DDR 400
Video Card: Nvidia 7300 gt
Sound Card: onboard Realtek
HD1: Seagate 80 gb
HD2-4: Toshiba 1 TB
Case: Bosch 5u (retired DESA server that was traded into us)
Remote: PVR-150 remote
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-500 x 3/ PVR-150 x 1
Country: USA
TV provider: Directv
TV signal type: analog cable coming from a media combiner so we have all of our satellite tuners sitting in one spot.
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10 upgraded from 9.04 through update manager

Performance:
We use this for the primary backend/front end. We also have 2 Acer Revos with Firefly remotes as remote front ends. Nice quality play back on the local and remote front ends. Had a bit of trouble with video permissions using multiple hard drives and NAS storage.
Doesn't like to have the DVD drive opened using the button on it, prefers to use the icon in Myth-frontend. I haven't looked into this much, as it is just as easy to use the remote and have it open as it is to push the button to open the tray.

[TheMiz]

Hardware
Motherboard: Zotac IONTIX-G-E
CPU: Intel Atom 330 1.6 GHz
RAM: 1 GB
Video Card: integrated GeForce 9400
Sound Card: integrated (I am using HDMI)
HD: 250 GB Western Digital
Remote: FusionRemote (bundled with my tuner)
Tuners: DViCO FusionHDTV7
Power Source: 200W
Country: United States
TV provider: Mediacom
TV signal type: QAM digital cable
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 9.10 (64-bit)

Performance
I have never ever played with Linux before. The closest I have come has been DOS back in the 80's and early 90's (when I was just a kid). I read everything I could about setting things up for High Definition recording and HDMI audio output, tuner card setup, scanning for channels. This box took me 2 weeks to get setup perfectly, and really it was working after 2 days, but it took me the extra time to figure out how to use the remote, how to do SSH and VNC to make editing easier. The most painful part of setup (besides the remote) was getting the scanned channels to match SchedulesDirect (I did this all manually and it took me about 2.5 hours). It is Wife-friendly (she's still a little scared of it, but she's getting it), and I am amazed everyday about what it can do and how I can customize it.

I only have a little bit of video hiccups when I am watching live HD content , I don't think it is that noticeable, and I may not have it optimized as well as I should (I'm pretty sure I have VDPAU configured correctly maybe I need to upgrade my memory to 2 GB). Recorded HD content is perfect. I get a jump error if I switch channels really fast. I'm going to try to integrate Hulu tonight, and then I really can't think of anything else I want to do to get it set up.

Thank you to everyone who has put time into this project!

[pnauta]

Hardware
Motherboard: ZOTAC GF9300-D-E LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 HDMI WiFi Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
CPU: Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
RAM: 2Gb (2x1Gb) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model KVR800D2N6/1G
Video Card: onboard (HDMI)
Sound Card: onboard (via HDMI)
HD: 4Gb Sandisk Contour USB Flash Drive
Remote: Mediagate GP-IR01BK Vista MCE Remote Control
Tuners: none
Country: Canada
TV provider: none
TV signal type: none
Mythbuntu Version: 9.04

Additional: case (temporary) APEX MI-100; Pico-PSU 120; Cooljag fanless heatsink; single 120mm noiseblocker XL1 fan = no noise :)

Performance
One issue so far: big DVDRip (or BlurayRip), 8.2Gb, ~15Mbit/sec, MKV plays with some hiccups. Network or CPU seem not to be an issue.

You need to change your TV Playback profile, bet you have CPU-- or the like. Had that last week.

[blkmeth]

NEW RIG

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
Chassis: Apevia X-Master
CPU: AMD Phenom II Black Edition X2 3.1 GHz
RAM: 2GB Patriot PC2-6400 800MHz
Video Card: Asus EN210 (GeForce 210) 512M via HDMI
Sound Card: Realtek ALC888 HD onboard Audio
HD: 40GB Seagate + 250GB WD
Remote: Hauppauge TV remote (came with tuner card)
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 Model 1178
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: North America (USA)
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: Comcast Cable
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): ATSC cable and OTA Digital (digital frontend mostly drops and/or playback very glitchy)
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 9.04

Performance

All hardware detected out-the-box.
System has intermittent hesitation during any form of playback and digital tuner drops frontend. Issue is under R and D. Could be a ram voltage issue.
Grfx card HDMI works wonderfully, no need for tweaking using generic nvidia drivers.

Will attempt to load 9.10 on this hardware and report findings at a later date.

Hardware :D:D:D
Motherboard: Gigabyte S-Series GA-G41M-ES2H
Chassis: Chenbro PC405
CPU: Intel 930 Pentium D Dual Core 3 GHz 800Mhz FSB
RAM: 2GB Patriot PC2-6400 800MHz
Video Card: onboard video via m/b HDMI port
Sound Card: Realtec ALC888 HD onboard Audio
HD: Seagate 200GB (Single)
Remote: Hauppauge TV remote (came with tuner card)
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 Model 1178
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: North America (USA)
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: Comcast Cable
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): ATSC cable only (digital frontend hangs and drops)
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 9.04

Performance

All hardware detected and fuctional except for digital tuner due to ivtv driver issues. Have to manually install mfg version audio HD driver ( Realtek ALC888 ) to get alsa sound mixer to work with onboard audio. Video card HDMI out does work in low graphics mode.

[cedyathome]

Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS M3N78-VM
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200 Brisbane 2.7GHz.RAM: Crucial 2 x 1GB
Video Card: On board nVidia 8200
Sound Card: on board
HD: WD Caviar Green 1TB
Remote: (not yet implemented) Streamzap ordered
Tuners: Hauppague WinTV-HVR-2250
Country: USA
TV provider: Comcast
TV signal type: Digital QAM/256
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10 w/auto updates.
Enclosure : Antec Minuet 350 Slim Mini Desktop case

Performance
Overall good. Using VDPAU & find de-interlacing on non-HD channels is not as good as I would like. A few unresolved issues remain like I cannot use mythtv to control volume. Need to manually boost AMD processor speed to 2.4GHz to get vdpau to work. I like the case. Quiet and small.

[JohnReid]

Hardware
Motherboard: Intel TOM COVE DH55TC
CPU: intel Core i3 530
RAM: Crucial 4GB
Video Card: Integrated
Sound Card: Integrated
HD: Western Digital 1.5TB Hard Drive SATAII 5400rpm
Remote: none yet
Tuners: Hauppage 2200
Country: UK
TV provider: Freeview
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Mythbuntu seems to work fine. Still trying to iron out problems with EIT. Card required setting modprobe options card=4. Some screen flickering and screen does not always update until mouse moved or a key is pressed. Will raise separate threads for these problems (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1410407).

[myth01]

Hardware
Motherboard: Asus something or other (in purchased PC)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6300 (1.86GHz)
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: MSI nVidia 9400GT
Sound Card: Integrated
HD: Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB, Seagate 320GB
Remote: Windows (ergh) MCEUSB
Tuners: 2x Hauppauge WinTV NOVA DVB-S2
Country: UK
TV provider: Freesat
TV signal type: DVB-S/2
Ubuntu 9.10 with MythTV 0.22-fixes

A few kinks at the start, but test rig is now mostly up and running.

Graphics:
All the graphics tweaks (disabling composite, "UseEvents", "TripleBuffer" etc) made the world of difference. VDPAU Normal playback profile has the playback at about 90% of what I think it should be, even BBC HD is almost flawless. Will likely be putting nVidia GT220 in production setup.
HDMI worked out of the box.

Sound:
Using digital out until I can figure out which pins on motherboard SPDIF should be connected to the graphics card for HDMI audio. Works perfectly although had to create .asoundrc to specify iec958 as default as the one of the tuners was being listed as the only device for sound.

Tuners:
Worked pretty much out of the box although had to download and copy firmware to /lib/firmware

CPU:
Top reports no more than about 10% even during HD playback. (I don't compress/transcode anything).

For a test setup I'm pretty happy, looking forward to deploying the final thing!

[blkmeth]

NEW RIG Back to Intel
Motherboard: \\:D/\\:D/Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G\\:D/\\:D/
Chassis: Apevia X-Master
CPU: Intel Pentium D 930 3.0 GHz
RAM: 2x1GB Patriot PC2-6400 800MHz
Video Card: Asus EN210 (GeForce 210) 512M via HDMI
Sound Card: Realtek ALC888 HD onboard Audio
HD: 40GB Seagate + 500GB WD
Remote: Hauppauge TV remote (came with tuner card)
Tuners: 2 x Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 Model 1178
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: North America (USA)
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: Comcast Cable
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): 2 x NTSC cable and ATSC cable
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 9.04

Performance

*** RECOMMEND any Intel Based Board w/out onboard video supporting Realtek audio chipset ***

All hardware detected out-the-box.
System is running very stable during any form of playback with no noticeable hesitation.
Grfx card HDMI works wonderfully, no need for tweaking using generic nvidia drivers.

TODO: Test Digital tunners


[/QUOTE]


Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3
Chassis: Apevia X-Master
CPU: AMD Phenom II Black Edition X2 3.1 GHz
RAM: 2GB Patriot PC2-6400 800MHz
Video Card: Asus EN210 (GeForce 210) 512M via HDMI
Sound Card: Realtek ALC888 HD onboard Audio
HD: 40GB Seagate + 250GB WD
Remote: Hauppauge TV remote (came with tuner card)
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 1600 Model 1178
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: North America (USA)
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: Comcast Cable
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): ATSC cable and OTA Digital (digital frontend mostly drops and/or playback very glitchy)
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 9.04

Performance

All hardware detected out-the-box.
System has intermittent hesitation during any form of playback and digital tuner drops frontend. Issue is under R and D. Could be a ram voltage issue.
Grfx card HDMI works wonderfully, no need for tweaking using generic nvidia drivers.

Will attempt to load 9.10 on this hardware and report findings at a later date.

[Trinity33]

hi,

Hardware MSI GT725
Motherboard: dont really know
CPU: q9000 2Ghhz quad core
RAM: ddr2 4gb UBUNTU 9.10X86X32 SEE 3GB OF MY RAM AFTER CHANGING TO KERNEL 2.6.31.14 OR 31.20 PAE MOUSSE CURSOR DISAPPEAR
Video Card: Ati HD 4850 500mb PROBLEMS IN 9.10 AFTER SYSTEM UPDATE UPGRADE
Sound Card: intel acl1200 + Ati hd48x0 HDMI ATI HDMI NOT SUPPORTED SO I USE INTEL SOUND CARD
HD: 500 Gb
Remote:
Tuners: Hauppauge Nova-s usb2 NOT SUPPORTED

Performance

ubuntu 9.10 as long as u dont upgrade anything after fresh OS installation everything is working fine Cpu usage around 1 to max 5%. after system upgrade update the cpu usage is around 50% the same problem i experienced trying to use lucid lynx. dont know why maybe Xorg it doesnt matter. after kernel upgrade currently i use 2.6.31.14 mousse cursor disappear. Hauppauge Nova-s usb2 in not supported. shame cos thats the reason i need every time i want to watch tv boot up windows:(.

[russell5]

Hardware
Motherboard:asrocks 4coredual-vsta
CPU:pentium d
RAM:1gb ddr
Video Card: geforce fx 5200
Sound Card: onboard
HD:segeate 400gb sata
Remote: rosewill usb
Tuners: 2x pvr 150s
Country: USA
TV provider: comcast:
TV signal type: coaxial cable ?:
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Performance
Setting up the remote was a pain. Had to edit lirc source files but had found great guide.

Some reason i cant get it to sleep/resume. I think its something to do with the remote receiver because when its unplugged it works. Still working on.

[trevmar]

.
Tiny ACER Revo AR1600-U910H refurbished ($159)with ATOM 230 CPU
1GB Ram (64M for Nividia Ion), 160GB 5400 RPM drive
HDHomeRun twin QAM tuner
Hanns 32inch 1920x1080p television, HDMI connection to Revo
Front and Back ends configured with Mythbuntu 9.10

Enough CPU / Peripheral power to watch live 1920x1080 TV and record two live 1920x1080 channels in the background (as long as two of the three sources are on the same transponder)

Problems with setup? Extreme frustration trying to understand what the menus were asking for. Didn't reach for the Manuals and FAQs until I was just about to give up. A typical geek problem..
.
.

Thanks to the Mythbuntu team...

[joejoe148]

Hardware
Motherboard: asus a7n8x
CPU:amd athlon xp 3000+
RAM: 2048 MB PC2700
Video Card: Geforce 6200le 512 MB DDR2
Sound Card: onboard
HD: WD1200
Remote: came with tuner
Tuners:HVR-1600 hauppage
Country: US
TV provider:broadcast
TV signal type: broadcast
Mythbuntu Version: 9.04

Performance
After much thrashing I mangaged to resolve the conflict between the tuner and the video card but I was never able to get gnome to install or flash to operate. MythTV appears to be operating fine and record and playback are functional in 720p. I wanted to use this as a desktop/frontend/backend but I must need an ideal set of hardware or more linux chi. I will try again loading ubuntu first(instead of mythbuntu first), then myth and see where I get.

Loading ubuntu first and then putting myth-desktop after seemed to work. I have myth, gnome, flash and all seem to be coexisting at the moment.

[Trinity33]

Hardware
Motherboard: American megatrend
CPU: q9000 2ghz quad core
RAM: ddr2 4gb
Video Card: ati hd4850
Sound Card: intel acl 1200+ati hd48x0 hdmi
HD: 500 gb
Remote:
Tuners:hauppauge nova-s usb2 model 47000
Country: UK
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: sky digital
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): dvb-s
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10

Performance

i tested alpha 2 then alpha3 and last test i did with beta1. TV card is not supported my laptop is MSI gt725 and the lucid doesnt work on it. first time i booted i tried to update everything from synaptic but i got bus error so i needed to reinstall lucid. after fresh instalation synaptic was working fine but i got high cpu usage i tried ati catalyst 10.2 then 10.3 didnt worked out maybe cos catalyst still doesnt support xorg 7.5. i tried open source driver i intsalled it but i still had high cpu usage im talkin about around 30 to 50%. i tried to upgrade or disable different things but it didnt helped much sometimes xorg cpu usage went to 20% from nothing then udevd used 30% of cpu from nothing then other application normally in karmic the cpu usage is around 2%. so thats all lucid still doesnt work on msi gt725 or advent gx7555 or advent gx8555.

[pbawesome]

Hardware
CPU: core 2 duo @ 2.2 Ghz
RAM: 2.0 gb ram
Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 3850, 512mb
HD: 250 gb hard drive
Tuners:
ATI TV Wonder 600 USB (DOESNT WORK)

Performance
installed proprietary drivers for video card, installed firwmare and everything for tuner, and NOTHING showed up

[Nausser]

Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS P5Q PRO TURBO 775 RT
CPU: INTEL|C2Q Q9550 2.83 775 12M
RAM: 2Gx2|OCZ OCZ2RPR10664GK
Video Card: EVGA|512-P3-N987-TR 9800GT
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 160G Seagate for OS/Music 1.5T Seagate for TV/Movies
Remote: Logitech Harmony 700
IR Receiver: Microsoft MCE Receiver/Blaster
Tuners: HAUPPAUGE|1101WB and Firewire Capture via Comcast Cisco RNG-150HD
Country: US
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: Comcast
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): us-cable
Mythbuntu Version: 9.10

Install/Performance

Install went rather well. The backend setup was a little confusing on the digital side of the installed tuner. I installed only one tuner at a time. It didn't like me multitasking with this. I installed the cable box first.
After the restart, I had to go into recovery mode and install the nvidia drivers via apt-get install envyng-core and then envyng -t even though I selected proprietary nvidia drivers in the initial setup. After that I would then boot back to recovery mode to get to the command line to edit the grub boot to keep it from going to low graphics mode or a blank screen during bootup. To do this I would edit the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. There I would add vmalloc=256MB after the word splash. This file has to be re edited each time a major update is applied to restart.
The last thing I would have to do from the command line before starting the full blown OS is to make sure mysql would start before mythbackend. This was done by editing /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf and adding
pre-start script
/etc/init.d/mysql start
end script

From there I finished installing my tuners one at a time.
I then opened the control centre and installed all the extras such as mythweb etc with password support enabled. Everything worked like a charm. Not a single glitch with HD recording/playback. I've done PIP with two HD sources and recording another HD program simultaneously. Couldn't ask for more television freedom! My last feature I enabled was the streaming capabilities via flash. I haven't tested it over the internet yet but it works flawlessly over my LAN on a wireless G laptop. It even works with shows I've cut the commercials out of and transcoded. Those are all the details I can think of. If you have any additional questions, feel free to ask!

[movieman]

Hardware
CPU: Atom-330
Motherboard: Zotac Ionitx F-E
RAM: 4GB DDR2 (only sees about 3.3GB)
Video Card: Ion
HD: Intel X25-V SSD
Tuners: Frontend only.

Performance

Everything basically works, I have video and audio out over HDMI and it plays HD files fine with GPU acceleration. However, I'm running xbmc rather than MythTV frontend because I've had so many problems with the Myth frontend recently and xbmc seems far more reliable; that said, it does reliably crash if I configure it to generate thumbnail files.

Boots in 15-20 seconds, I was hoping it would be a bit faster than that with the SSD, but it still boots faster than my Blu-Ray player.

[joarctic]

Aopen i855 GME Mobo
750Mb RAM
1.6Ghz Pentium M
Hauppauge Nova TD-500 with Hauppauge remote
750Gb WD Green HDD
NVIDIA 6200 AGP 64Mb
No DVD player after install
cheap steel case drilled with holes & sprayed black
good airflow means temp controlled fans never spin up so totally silent
Mythbuntu 10.04
UK Freeview
MP3 converter plugin to transcode radio shows to MP3 from here;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8345112&postcount=636


Issues with regular system freezes (in 9.0.4) finally fixed by only having 1 tuner scan for channel info & messing around with the timeouts.

Recent upgrade to 10.0.4 totally painless apart from volume muting every time I rebooted. Removed any line with the word "mute" in it from the alsa-utils file in etc/init.d & seems to have worked. Also though I'd locked the remote to event 6 the upgrade threw that out too so had to redo hardware.conf to make it work. Oh and I still can't make it boot straight to Myth Frontend but since I only reboot rarely this is no big deal.
For the upgrade I basically just allowed the system to update itself, first Ubuntu then Myth. Took ages but all worked seamlessly. CPU useage also went down substantially with Xorg dropping from 30% under 9.0.4 to around 1% (at idle).

[c1ru]

Sveon STV22
Dont work, only get Afatech from lsusb.
Its a dvb-t dual and supports HDChannels.
Usb pen.

[mechanizedmedic]

Hardware
Motherboard: Biostar A770E3 v6.0
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 435 2.9GHz (OC'd to 3.2)
RAM: Patriot DDR3 1333MHz
Video Card: BFG GeForce 210 1GB
Storage: Patriot PS-100 32GB SSD
Add-ons: Sony 3.5" Multi-Card Reader w/ USB Port
Airlink PCI Wireless Card
OS: Ubuntu 9.10


Performance
Very fast system for under 300 bucks! The SSD made all the difference in performance. I have yet to update the BIOS to unlock the fourth core. The only problems so far have been from user error. ](*,)

[rramesh]

Hardware
--------------
HDHomerun OTA
Biostart TForce6100 + Athlon 64 2G (socket 939)
2G RAM + 1TB WD black HD
9400 GT with VDPAU normal
Sound from MB audio
Vista remote (mce_usb2 - I think) from newegg.

Works mostly. Occasional stutter with HD recordings. Could because I have OS+DB+Myth
on one disk.

[Ryazanov]

Hardware
Laptop: HP6735s
CPU: AMD Turion x2 64
RAM: 3GB
Video Card: Ati Radeon HD3200
HD: 320 GB
Tuners:
-Acorp DS120: Works perfectly
-LightWave LW-EXPTVAV: Does not work at all. Searched internet: nothing usable

[dewmanstl]

Hardware
Motherboard: Dell PowerEdge SC420
CPU: Pentium 4 3.00GHz
RAM: 4x1g DDR Synchronous 533 MHz
Video Card: IntelE7221 Integrated Graphics Controller
Sound Card: Ensoniq ES1370
HD: /40GB-OS/ 160GB-Live TV-Mythgame/ /250GB-Music/ /1TB-Recordings/
Remote: Xbox DVD IRKit http://nikosapi.org/wiki/index.php/Xbox_DVD_Playback_Kit_Pinout
Tuners: Pinnacle PCTV HD_Card (800i)
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: USA
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: TVC
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): ATSC / NTSC
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 9.10 .23 Trunk

Performance
Overall performance is pretty good. Some slight stuttering with HD playback but waf is pretty high. Remote was hardest part of entire project due to soldering of wires to IR receiver. Minor glitches here and there, but I blame those on me.

[russell5]

Hardware
Motherboard: ASrocks 4CoreDual-VSTA
CPU: Pentium D 2.8 GHZ
RAM: 2x1GB DDR2
Video Card: Gefore fx 5200 128MB
Sound Card: Built in
HD: 400 sata 1tb sata
Remote: Rosewill rrc-127 pain to get working but found awesome guide
Tuners: 2x pvr 150
Country: USA
TV provider: Comcast
TV signal type: NTSC
Mythbuntu Version: Mythbuntu 10.04 .23 Trunk

Performance
Pretty good boot up is much faster with 10.04. No complaints about system. Haven't seen a slowdown yet. Even when recording two programs and watching a movie.

[juanfernandes]

Hardware: Acer Aspire Revo R3610

CPU: Intel Atom 330
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHz
Video Card: NVIDIA Ion Chipset
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 500GB SATA
Remote: Wireless keyboard
Tuners: None
Country: United Kingdom
Mythbuntu Version: 10.4

Performance:
Very good. Had few issues to start off with, no dvd playback, no sound, no video playback, videos not showing up in library, shutdown or restart didnt work from mythtv menu, couldnt not bind F keys from my multimedia keyboard.

After I fixed all the above issues, the system was working perfectly. Sound output was via HDMI.

[rulet]

Hardware: Acer Aspire Revo R3610

CPU: Intel Atom 330
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800MHz
Video Card: NVIDIA Ion Chipset
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 500GB SATA
Remote: Wireless keyboard
Tuners: None
Country: United Kingdom
Mythbuntu Version: 10.4

Performance:
Very good. Had few issues to start off with, no dvd playback, no sound, no video playback, videos not showing up in library, shutdown or restart didnt work from mythtv menu, couldnt not bind F keys from my multimedia keyboard.

After I fixed all the above issues, the system was working perfectly. Sound output was via HDMI.

And how did you do that, can you describe?

[tomaton]

Hardware
Motherboard: ZOTAC IONITX-A-E
CPU: Intel ATOM 330
RAM: 2 GB RAM DDR
Video Card: NVIDIA ION
HD: SAMSUNG 2.5" Spinpoint M7 HM500JI 500GB, SATA
Tuners:
USB LifeView LV52T (doesn't work, no drivers for Linux)
USB Aver TV Hybrid Volar HX Windows 7 Starter Kit (works, driver from vendor's web)
Remote: USB tuners contains IR receivers which doesn't work
Country: Czech Republic
TV signal type: DVB-T, FM radio (not checked), Analog TV (not checked)
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04

Performance
Almost all hardware properly detected. Need to select NVIDIA proprietary driver during install. Then need to install Linux driver for Aver TV Hybrid Volar HX from http://www.avermedia.com/avertv/Product/ProductDetail.aspx?Id=293&tab=APDriver
Remote receivers in USB DVB-T cards seems not be detected. I connected HTPC to FullHD TV via HDMI, for audio over hdmi I needed to manually execute alsamixer and unmute the third SPDIF labeled as SPDIF 1. In the mythtv-frontend selected Setup -> General -> Audio System -> Audio Output device alsa:hdmi.
To view HD channels, it needs to select VDPAU Slim in Setup->TV Settings->Playback 3/8 -> Current Video Playback Profile. The other options VDPAU Normal and VDPAU High Quality produce choppy video playback. I also disabled the MPEG signal noise reduction on my TV, which also produced a little choppy video playback.
Didn't checked yet FM Radio as it needs quite more effort to configure/set/integrate into mythtv frontend.

[Slate8]

Hardware
Motherboard: Acer Aspire Revo R3610
CPU: Intel Atom N330 (Dual Core)
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9400 (NVIDIA Ion)
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 250GB SATA
Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote Model 1039 with IR sensor
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T USB
Country: United Kingdom
TV signal type: Freeview DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04

Performance
Very good, all hardware detected and working out the box. Selected nVidia proprietary driver during install. Had to enable HDMI audio via the alsa mixer. Experienced tearing of video until I set the "Composite" "Disabled" option in xorg.conf. Otherwise fantastic bit of kit. UI is fast with the Arclight theme. VDPAU working out the box and plays high bitrate 1080p without issue. An ideal quiet, low power, small Mythbuntu box!

[percula]

Well after living 4+ years my old Myth box finally, slowly gave up the ghost and it was time to build a new MBE/FE box.

The Build
Mythbuntu 10.04 LTS
Asus M4A77D
Athlon X2 245 (2.9Ghz)
2GB of RAM
500G WD HDD
Zotac GeForce GT 240 (fanless model!)
PVR-150 with remote
PVR-500
SA4250HDC STB connected via firewall
Generic CDROM drive
Intel 10/100/1000 NIC

The network/design

I have a SAN built on a 1Gbps jumbo frame network. This is where I store my movies and other media content. The second (Intel) NIC in this build is dedicated for the SAN network. I use NFS to mount the SAN to provide Myth with a videos, etc directory structure.

The MBE/FE serves only myself at this point, even thought it maybe expanded in the future.

Issues

The first issue I was confronted with was the built-in sound card the MB. I connected my 5.1 surround speaker system and expected to have fiddle with things to get more than 2 channels, nope, no sound what so ever. After much searching/researching I found out that the version of ALSA that ships with the Mythbuntu 10.04 ISO does not correctly identify the sound system.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6589810 This thread worked well, but I had to run the process twice as I had a package manager open, and there was no warning that these scripts need to have package manager access and report no errors if they are blocked from exclusive access... Oh well.

I am still not 100% on sound. I am not getting enough volume out the setup despite having everything cranked to the max. Something I need to dig into a bit more. The system is workable but fails if I get a media source with low volume to begin with.

The next issue is my SA4250HDC... I have it hooked up, setup, changing channels, everything except being able to fully lock up and get video to record. This likely has more to do with Cox in PHX than anything I can do... Oh well, HDPVR in the future anyway, no worries.

Summary/thoughts

I am a died in the wool CentOS user, converted our entire company to CentOS (8 locations worldwide, 2500+ employees, hundreds of servers). I am big fanboy. However in the desktop world, especially for a HTPC Ubuntu rules!

It was great timing that the old hardware decided to die when there was a fresh LTS version out! The old hardware had me really down on Mythbuntu, but that was all hardware related and nothing to do with Mythbuntu, despite the looks of the situation at the time. Now with fresh working hardware, things are working every well.

Some of the things I seen during the death of the old hardware...


PVR-150 remote just stopped working. Nothing wrong, just slowly went from working to barely registering key presses to nothing. I went out and got a MCE remote, and it too had some serious lag, sluggishness issues.

Xorg was eating 100% of the CPU.

Recording was hit and miss on the 150 and 500 inputs.


Overall I am very happy with the build and Mythbuntu.

[drivingdynamics]

Hardware
Motherboard: Asrock M3A785GXH/128
CPU: AMD Athlon 5050e 2x2,8 Ghz
RAM: 4GB Geil
Video Card: Gainward NVIDIA 9500 GT (fanless)
Sound Card: Internal ATI
HD: Samsung 1TB
case: Antec Fusion remote max (antec versis) with LCD and remote.
Remote: Antec-Version RM200
Tuners: Technisat SkyStar 2
Country: Germany
Wireless network: TP-Link TL-WN350G
TV signal type: DVB-S
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04 , 9.10

Performance

Internal Graphic (ATI 4200) card was too slow, performance with NVIDIA 9500GT is much better, picture with VDPAU is very good.
Sound over HDMI works with internal connection from
mainboard SPdif --> graphiccard.

I had a lot of problem with system freezes (prebuffering pauses and write audio errors) caused by the wireless network card. I had to deactivate the network card.ACPI wakeup doesn't work with this mainboad from standby,
only from suspend mode.

[linuxyogi]

HP Scanner --- Scanjet 2400

&

Lexmark X75 Printer

Simply not supported.:-x

[Drenriza]

Hardware
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 4.0 gb ram
Video Card: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1)
Wireless network: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
HD: 190 gb hard drive
Tuners:
Country: Denmark
Ubuntu: 10.04
Sound Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
Laptop Zepto Znote 6224W (no longer produced)

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
0 problems

[mycatsnameisbernie]

Hardware
Motherboard: Intel DG43GT uATX
Case: In-Win IW-BK623 plus Scythe SY124010L 40mm Chipset Fan for very hot ICH10 Southbridge chip
CPU: Intel Wolfdale E6300 2.8 GHz 1066FSB
RAM: Kingston KVR800D2N6K2/2G (2 x 1GB)
Video Card: None, using motherboard's integrated G43/X4500 graphics
Sound: Onboard ICH10 Intel HD Audio via on-board optical S/PDIF.
Wireless adapter: Rosewill RNX-G1W USB
HD: Western Digital AV-GP WD5000AVDS 500GB
Tuners: Hauppauge HVR-1600 model 1199 w/IR receiver/blaster/remote, plus Hauppauge HVR-1250 model 1187
TV inputs: 2 x clear QAM-256 from Comcast cable plus analog input from Motorola DHC70 cable box controlled by the Hauppauge IR blaster.
TV: Panasonic 50" Viera Plasma circa 2008, connected via HDMI
Country: US
Ubuntu: 10.04

Performance
This is a combined FE/BE.

The biggest challenge was getting the HVR-1600 IR receiver and blaster to work on Ubuntu 10.04. You can find my recepie to make both the IR receiver and blaster work here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9548142&postcount=9

I had to force each DVB input (on the HVR 1600 and 1250) to work separately (by removing the other from input connections) before MythTV would switch between them automatically.

The next problem was running out of kernel memory when using all 3 tuners at the same time. This was fixed as described here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Common_Problem:_vmalloc_too_small. The default vmalloc set during the Lucid install was 128MB. I added the boot option vmalloc=512MB, which is way more than I will ever need, but with 2GB total RAM there is plenty of room for the extra kernel memory.

The next problem was lots of prebuffering pauses. I solved these by changing the TV Playback profile from CPU+ (the initial default set during Mythbuntu installation) to CPU++. I think the prebuffering pauses were caused by XvMC failing to work on my G43 graphics at 1080P and falling back to libmpeg2. With CPU++ it uses ffmpeg which looks and performs great. CPU usage is about 30% when recording 3 simultaneous MPEG streams plus playing back a 1080i recording with deinterlacing to 1080P TV.

I had minor problems with audio via HDMI. Outputs of ALSA:default and ALSA:hdmi did not work (no audio). Using ALSA: plughw:0,3 which is my HDMI audio card/device, worked fine. Later I changed to S/PDIF optical output, which works fine for 5.1 audio using ALSA:iec958.

Then I was getting lots of WriteAudio buffer underruns. I solved these by unchecking "Use Internal Volume Controls" in front end setup General/Audio Mixer (I couldn't get the mixer to work with HDMI audio in any case). Controlling volume with my TV or stereo is fine.

I have one remaining problem:

I am unable to get frontend setup Appearance/Screen Settings x/y offset and "use GUI size for playback" (unchecked) to work to correct my TV's overscan. I need to do more research on this issue.

Other thoughts:
I originally was planning to get an Atom 330/ION board. Then Comcast started encrypting most basic cable channels, so I needed a 2nd PCI slot for an analog card to hook up to my cable box (I was afraid to try an analog USB TV Tuner). I realized I could get a cheap uATX board with 4 expansion slots, plus a more powerful CPU, for less money than an Atom/ION board. I think this was a good decision. MythTV deinterlacing runs great using about 30% of CPU. The biggest CPU hog I could find was Adobe Flash playback of 1080P full-screen, which uses about 60% of CPU.

I knew I was taking a chance with the Intel onboard graphics, but it is working fine for me except for the overscan issue mentioned above. I can always add an Nvidia graphics card that supports VDPAU if I ever feel the need for it.

The main advantage of an Atom-based system would be less power and heat. My system draws about 48 watts when idle, and 78 watts when in use, as measured with a Kill-A-Watt.

[linuxilis]

Hardware
HTPC: ASRock ION330HT-BD HTPC (http://www.ocinside.de/html/results/asrock_ion330ht_blu_ray.html) :popcorn:
Motherboard: ASRock AMCP7AION-HT
CPU: Intel ATOM 330 Dual Core
RAM: 2 GB RAM DDR
Video Card: NVIDIA ION
HD: Seagate Momentus 320GB
Remote: USB Ultra infrared receiver v2.0 (http://www.ocinside.de/html/modding/usb_ultra_ir_receiver/usb_ultra_ir_receiver.html)
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04 LTS 64 Bit

Performance
good, also with HD content.
Installed with this (http://www.ocinside.de/html/modding/linux_ir_anleitung_d.html) German LIRC guide.

[jms-ubuntu-en]

Backend server
Hardware
Motherboard: Asus M3N78-VM
CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 920 Processor
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: nVidia Geforce 8200 (integrated)
Sound Card: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (integrated)
HD system: Seagate Barracuda 500GB (ST3500320AS)
HD storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB (ST31000340AS)
Remote:
Tuners: 2 x Terratec Cinergy 1200 (Philips Semiconductors SAA7146)
Country: Finland
TV provider: Elisa (free, non-free and HD content)
TV signal type: DVB-C
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04.1

Performance
Zero problems so far. I have subscribed also some non-free channels (crypted) so I have also a Phoenix card reader, an oscam cardserver and vdr-sasc-ng (release 551) as a software emulated CAM.

Frontend primary
Hardware
Motherboard: Zotac 330 ION mini-itx
CPU: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: nVidia Corporation ION VGA (integrated)
Sound Card: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (integrated)
HD: Kingston 8GB usb stick
Remote: HTPC-Keyboard Ione Scorpius-P20
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04.1

Performance
Reasonable performance in scope of video/audio output, also with HD material (both DVB-C broadcasts and blueray disks). All logging is disabled or minimized due to usage of usb stick as hard disk.

Frontend secondary
Hardware
Motherboard: Dell Precision M4300 (laptop)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 2GB
Video Card: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 360M
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
HD: Seagate 120GB (ST9120823AS)
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04.1

Performance
Problems with HD content when using wireless (11g), otherwise ok.

[Addanc]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2H uATX
CPU: Intel Core i5-650
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: Core i5-650 GPU
Sound Card: Realtek ALC888B/892 (Motherboard)
HD: Western Digital 500GB SATA II 7200RPM 16MB cache.
DVD: Sony AD7241S 24x SATA.
Tuners: Hauppauge Nova-T-500 dual DVB tuner.
Enclosure: Antec NSK 1380 MATX cube case with 350W PSU.
Country: UK.
TV provider: Freeview digital terrestrial.
TV signal type: DVB-T.
Mythbuntu Version: 64bit 10.04

Mythbuntu installed without any problems; TV play and recording excellent. Very impressed with how quiet the set-up is.

The only problem encountered is DVD playback from within the Mythbuntu framework; DVD playback freezes on completion of the DVD opening title play-back (can escape out to Mythbuntu menus, so not a total lock-up); don't believe its the hardware since VLC and SMPlayer playback DVD OK; probably more a function of DVD navigation?

After testing with multiple DVD, the freeze-up appears to be a function on the DVD and not the hardware; as suggested previously probably the DVD navigation.

[LowSky]

Hardware
Motherboard: MSI 790GX-GD70
Case: Lancool K-62
CPU: AMD Phenom II 550 x2 (unlocked to 4 cores at 3.5 GHz)
RAM: G-Skill 2x2GB DDR3 1600
Video Card: Gigabyte Nvidia 460GTX
Sound: Onboard
HD: 4 different sized and branded hard drives, totaling 1.6TB of recordable space
Tuners: Hauppauge HVR-2250 w/ USB IR receiver/blaster/remote, Hauppauge HD PVR 1212 connected to SA4250HD cable box using Firewire to change channels.
TV: Vizio 37" 720p/1080i connected via VGA, Hanns-G 19" Monitor connected via DVI.
Ubuntu: 10.04, MythTV 0.23.1

Performance
System is a backend/frontend using a monitor and TV as separate X sessions. The Nvidia 460GTX handles this beautifully.
Moving the mouse between screens switches which X session is being used. Sound is still prioritized by MythTV frontend when it is being utilized. VDPAU really helps keep loads down as the machine is constantly multitasking.

Mythchanger was a great help in changing channels for my HD PVR without it I would need to use a blaster which seems like a messy solution to me.

Still working on analog support for the HVR-2250, digital works great and can record 4 shows at once as long as they share QAM frequencies. HD PVR isn't too bad recoding form cable box. sometimes it will not record due to errors of the cable box, or mess up if someone changes the channel by hand.

One odd issue is Firefox locking up when running it and mythtv at the same time on separate X sessions... I'm guessing flash is the real culprit but I need to look into it further.

[jskiller]

Hardware
Dell Latitude E6510
CPU: Intel Core i5-540m
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: Core i5-540m GPU

Ubuntu 9.04 - video issues, screen freezes after gnome boots up. Later, built kernel 2.6.35 and gnome still freezes.

Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04, 10.04TLS, 10.10 (beta) installation screen goes black. Cannot install.

[gvvsss]

Hardware
Motherboard:ASUS M3N78-VM
CPU:AMD Phenom II X4 955
RAM:4 GB DDR2 800 MHz
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8200 (Onboard)(512 MB Shared)
Sound Card:VT1708B Analog Audio (Onboard)

Installation went well, had to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers after installation for Desktop Effects, only NVIDIA HD Audio option showing up in alsamixer, and no sound through speakers and my analog sound device is not functioning..

Observed lately that although the analog devise is not shown up in audio mixer or alsamixer, it is actually working, only sound from rare audio ports is working and front audio is missing (I figured it very lately since I mostly use my front audio ports for playback). Could not still figure a way to work around this.

[forkd]

I am using a
Mythbuntu 10.4
CPU Socket 775 C2D
motherboard Zotac GF9300
Onboard Sound
Onboard Nvidia Video with VDPAU
Onboard NIC
Hard Drive WD EARS 2TB (advanced format so I formatted it in Windows 7 first so the partitions started on the right cylinders and then installed with "take over all partitions" option...worked fine)
Snapstream RF Remote
HD-PVR connected to a DirectTV box
Hauppauge 950Q for digital OTA signal
USB>Serial>USB assembly to control the DirectTV box

All worked well out of the box but I fleshed out my own lirc config files because I was unhappy with the default one...If anyone is interested I'd be happy to post my files.

[JoaoRoberto]

Hardware
CPU: atlhon 4200 x2
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: ati x1550 sapphire 256/64
HD:80 gb hard drive


Performance
All hardware properly detected are functional, except my LG GSA-H50N dvd rom...
Please, help me! im freakin' out...i need backup my pc to format
Help

Hardware
Motherboard: m2n-x asus
ubuntu 10.04, updated today...

[lviperz]

This is for the newbies and people that want to build a standard def system on old hardware. Like me.

I've been using mythtv on fedora since about 2003 or 2004. Think it was like version .17 or something. Ran it on fedora core 5. Then I merged to a better system with FC7 and mythtv .20.

Figured it was time to upgrade and found mythbuntu, wonderful and so damn simple to setup. Anyway, here is what I'm using for a simple sdtv system.

System: Dell Dimension 8300 with a P4 2.6 hyper-threading
Ram: 2.5 Gig pc2700
Video: nVidia MX series with 64 meg ram
Hard Drive: 80 Gig seagate for the os - mythbuntu 10.04
iOmega NAS for recording storage - 1TB
Network: Gigabit network
Tuners: Hauppauge pvr-150, pvr-250 and pvr-350

System connected to Samsung DLP via vga. This is a single backend/frontend system and all is working right out of the box. Once I configured my tuners correctly. Forgot to select ivtv for the type.

I have great video and did a test by recording 3 shows at once, set another old recording for commercial flagging and transcode, watched a recording and monitored the system with TOP. CPU averaged 15% wth an occasional spike to 30%. Everything was still using ram and never toughed swap. Playback of the recording remained steady and never any stutters.

When the three recording were finished, I viewed them and no stutter in them either. I doubt I will even try to do HD with this system, so my next project is to build a system just for hi-def stuff and use the old system as a master backend.

[image_editor]

Hi all,
My newly reserrected systems hardware includes:

P4P800S Asus Motherboard
P4 1.7Ghz Processsor
1.256 Gig Ram
160Gig Sata Hard DRive
Nvidea Geforce 128mb Video Card AGP
DNTV Live PCI Video Card
Mythbuntu 10.04
--

PROBLEM
------------
My problem is the computer (acting as a frontend and backend) keeps freezing.
When its up and running it plays back recordings beautifully but if i leave it alone for an hour or more and i come back it has crashed.


ACTIONS SO FAR
------------------
I have tried wiping the drive and installing mythbuntu 10.10 with no difference in effectiveness


What can i do , does anyone have any suggestions?

[torrent99]

This is for the newbies and people that want to build a standard def system on old hardware. Like me.

Intel P4 pah! When I wer lad, we used to sleep in paper box. and imagine eating potatoes... ;-)

Anyway here's my SD system.
System: Pentium 3 1Ghz on an Intel D815EEA MB
Ram: 512MB PC133
Video: nVidia FX5200 using XvMC+bob 2x connected via SCART RGB
Hard Drive: 40 Gig seagate for the os - ubuntu 10.04
2x 160GB IDE + 1x 500GB SATA for recordings
Network: 100Mb/s network
Tuners: Hauppauge pvr-150, 1x DVB-T on PCI, 1x DVB-T USB


System ran Myth 0.21 really well, could record up to 4 shows at once & playback at same time.
Running 0.23 it's not so good.. Myth backend has got a bit fat. Can still record 2x & playback 1x though...

How low can you go?

[darkdrow]

Hardware
CPU:amd 64 athalon
RAM:4 gb ddr 2 800
Video Card: ati radeon 4650 hd ( HDMI conection )
Country:canada

OS works fine the only issue im having is getting the ati control center to work, i just get a error saying cant locate graphic drivers, or hardware. i need it tho cause im running a 42" LCD high def tv for a minitor and ubuntu thinks its a 46 so all my sides are cut off.

[avacado]

Hardware
CPU Intel Atom N450
RAM 2gb upgraded from 1 gb
multi card reader device number 0cf2:6250 ENE Technology Does NOT work
DESPITE BEING CANONICAL CERTIFIED HARDWARE
see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/530277
Country Australia

[mr_luksom]

Hardware - Backend
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M61-PM-S2
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 x2 3800+
RAM: 1GB
Video Card: None
Sound Card: None
HD: yes
Remote: None
Tuners: 2 x Haupaugge HVR-1100
Country: Australia
TV provider: Free to Air
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10

Performance
Perfect - no issues.

Hardware - Frontend
Motherboard: Laptop - Toshiba A80
CPU: Centrino M 1.6Ghz
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: None
Sound Card:??
HD: yes
Remote: Generic PS2 controller
Tuners:
Country: Australia
TV provider: Free to air
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10

Performance
Doesnt handle PIP very well.

[Richard_T]

GIGABYTE GA-MA770
AMD PHENOM 9650
RAM 4 GB DDR
ZOTAC 9800 1GB DDR3
on board 5.1 sound.
Hitachi 250 GB Drive
Maxtor 250 GB Drive
segate 500 GB Drive

Microsoft Keyboard
Gigabyte Mouse. GM - M6880
HYUNDAI 22" Blue H monitor.

No Problems Installed like a charm.

Also
Asus A8N-SLI
AMD ATHLON
2 GB RAM
250 GB DRIVE
XFX 8600gt 256 Mb

Failed to install the partition manager couldn't partition the drive (partition manager wouldn't give any options) I had suse 11.3 on but now have 7 on there.

Country: Cymru Great Britain

[Xrcam]

Xrcam setup.

Four machines. One linux backend server, one linux frontend server and two windows frontend.

Backend server:
Hardware
Mobo : Asus M2N-MX SE PLUS
CPU : Amd Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
RAM : 2 GB
Video Card : GeForce 6150E nforce 430 (on mobo)
Sound Card : Nvidia corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (Rev 22) (on mobo)
Remote: None
HD : Western Digital 2TB – WDC WD20EAR5-00
Tuners : Hauppauge HD-PVR 1212
TV Box : Scientific Atlanta 4250HD
TV Provider : Videotron
Country: Canada

Software
OS: Mythbuntu 10.10
MythRelease: 0.24
FireWire Channel Changer: /usr/bin/mythchanger


Frontend 1:
Hardware
Mobo : Shuttle XS35gt
CPU : Intel Atom 510 Dual core (Pineview-D)
RAM : 2 GB DDR2
Video Card : Nvidia Ion 512MB DDR3, HDMI
Sound Card : Nvidia Ion
Remote control : Wireless Rii Mini PC Keyboard
HD : SSD 30GB OCZ – OCZSSD2, 1VTX30G RTL

Software
OS: Mythbuntu 10.10
MythRelease: 0.24

Frontend 2 and 3:
Windows PC – Kids room (using Myth 0.24 compiled for Windows)

So far everything works as expected. Got 4 problems :
1- No sound thru HDMI with Frontend 1. Fixed : Alsa-conf files and MythFrontEnd audio settings.
2- Streamzap (lirc) does not work with (10.10). Replaced Streamzap by Rii Mini PC Keyboard
3- Did not succeeded using IR Blaster as a channel changer for the TV Box. I hooked my backend to the SA4250HD with a FireWire Link and used (Mythchanger) program instead.
4- This is unsolved: Cannot use High Def VDPAU on the master frontend. This setup cause display lag on the TV. Ended using VDPAU Standard definition.

Thanks folks for this great package ! :popcorn:

[vanbob]

Hardware
Motherboard: MSI H57M-ED65 LGA 1156 Intel H57 HDMI Micro ATX
CPU: Intel Core i3-560 Clarkdale 3.33GHz 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
Video Card:
Sound Card: HDMI [motherboard]
HD: Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Remote: mceusb
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250
Country: US
TV provider: OTA
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10 (64 bit) & Ubuntu 10.10 desktop

[I]Performance
Used LowSky's tutorial (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=566529) to get HVR-2250 running. I used 10:10 HVR2250 driver and audio.
Still encountering "Video Buffer Errors" but suspect this is a antenna reception problem. I'll post if it's something different.

[MarkAtNeerim]

Motherboard: Gigabyte EP45-DS4
CPU: Intel E8500 Core 2 Duo 3.16 3.16 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB
RAM: 8GB DDR2
Video Card: nVidia EN8500GT-Silent
Sound: RealTek on M/B
HDD: OCZ Agility 60 GB SSD
WD Velic1raptor 300MB (x2)
Tuners: Hauppauge Nova-T500 PCI Dual tuner
Leadtech DTV1000S Single tuner
Location West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia
TV format: Free to air Digital

Mythbuntu: Mythbuntu 10.10 x64 xfce desktop

Works great, no problems with with any of above hardware.

Note: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-T1300 fails to tune or lock stations, tried backported V4L-DVB with fix at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythtv/+bug/439163/comments/147
which solves tuning/lock problem but interferes with IR remote, so will wait for fix in kernel before deciding to replace DTV1000s with it.

Thanks for great package

[nhtrader]

AverTVHD Duet - Non Functional


Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
CPU: AMD X2 245 (2.9Ghz)
RAM: 4 Gb
Video Card: Onboard AMD/ATI
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 750Gb Seagate SATA 3.0
Remote: none
Tuners: AverTVHD Duet
Country: US
TV provider: Comcast/OTA
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10 (32 bit) & tried both open-source video driver and AMD/ATI proprietary drivers

Performance
AverMedia's AverTVHD Duet not supported. MythTV Error message = 'No UPnP'
No playback; No recording possible.

[Slate8]

Hardware:
Motherboard: Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop
CPU: Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz
RAM: 2Gb
Video Card: NVIDIA ION 2
Sound Card: onboard
HD: 160Gb SATA
Remote: Windows Media Center
Tuners: WinTV Nova-TD Diversity USB
Country: UK
TV provider: Freeview
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10

Performance
All hardware detected and functional except driver for wireless adapter which causes a hang on shutdown / restart.

Fix for wireless driver
Credit to Dan Wood from the comments page on http://www.ebuyer.com/product/236579
Open a terminal and type:
sudo pico /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Now add this to the bottom of the file:
blacklist rt2800pci

Save the file (Ctrl+o)

Now reboot (you'll still need to hold power button in this time!).

You should now find your system restarts with a different wifi driver that behaves better on shutdown.

There was slight tearing when viewing video so I disabled compositing
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add the following to the bottom

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Disabled"
EndSection

Then reboot

Fantastic little machine. Cheap, silent, plays high bitrate 1080p h264 video through VDPAU with ease. Highly recommend this little box as a myth frontend / backend.

[Chunk of Earth]

Hi folks,
With the release of the beta, the amount of changes that can be made are likely limited to bug fixes.

In an effort to produce accurate documentation of what people will need hardware wise for setting up a box, we'd like if you can post what hardware you've got (particularly tuners) and how things work with it.

Hardware
Motherboard: Dell 400sc
CPU: Pentium 4 2.8GHz Hyperthreaded
RAM: 2.5GB
Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5200
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 Platinum
HD: Samscum SpinPoint 500GB x2 in LVM and RAID 1 config
Remote: mceusb IR6
Tuners: Hauppauge HVR-1600 (x2), pcHDTV HD5500
Country: 'tis of thee
TV provider: Suddenstink Cable
TV signal type: QAM 256
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10
MythTV Version: .24-fixes

Performance
The SoundBlaster Live does not work with the .24-fixes branch. I (and at least one other user) get constant ALSA buffer underruns and jumpy video (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1632963). I can make it work with the on-board audio (Intel ICH5) as long as I settle for 2-channel analog sound output.
XvMC would be nice with the 5200 video but the package maintainers have dropped support for it in the nightly builds. Xv and openGL scaling work but with a little extra CPU utilization (mythfrontend.real uses about 17% CPU while playing SD video)

[crbnrod]

Hardware
Motherboard: Asus Pundit P1-AH2
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 3800+
RAM: 1 Gb Kingston DDR2
Video Card: onboard, Nvidia 6150
Sound Card: onboard, Azalia ALC86-DTS
HD: Seagate Barracuda 500 Gb SATA
Remote: MCE, came w/tuner card
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-500
Country: USA
TV provider: Comcast
TV signal type: analog cable tv
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04. Machine has been running since April 2008, so I don't really remember what the original version was.

Performance
Machine is solo FE/BE. Add'l hardware is a D-Link WDA-1320 wireless adapter. Everything pretty much works out of the box with a clean install of 10.04. I think the only tweak I made was to add a delay to the backend startup in /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf so the tuner cards are initialized before the backend starts.
Will soon be canceling cable and switching to digital OTA. Have (v. briefly) tested Hauppauge 950Q with this machine and seems to handle HD just fine.
This is probably moot because machine is almost 3 years old, but the PVR-500 is a really big card and required some retrofitting (read: bending the chassis a little) to fit inside the Pundit.


Hardware
Motherboard: Asus M2N68-AM Plus
CPU: Athlon II X2 250
RAM: 1 Gb Kingston DDR2
Video Card: MSI n8400GS-TD256 GeForce 8400
Sound Card: onboard Realtek ALC662
HD: Seagate Barracuda 500 Gb SATA
Remote: MCE, came w/tuner card, but see comments below
Tuners: Hauppauge HVR-2250
Country: USA
TV provider: OTA
TV signal type: Whatever comes through the antenna - ATSC I think
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04

Performance
Machine is solo FE/BE. Using ASUS USB N-13 for wireless internet to the machine. Motherboard does not have tv-out, "minor" oversight on my part, hence the videocard (duuuh). I ended up with the "new" version of the HVR-2250 with the IR receiver the plugs into the tuner card. Bought USB MCE receiver on ebay & works fine. Same change to backend config as above to make sure tuner cards are initialized.
Using Terk HDTV-a indoor antenna, if anyone cares.

Will soon be adding second antenna to OTA array in order to pick up Chicago and Milwaukee stations and will then put 950q in the old machine and convert to secondary backend (need to wire house for ethernet as well, so).

Two other pieces of hardware I wish I'd had when setting up the first mythbox:
1. A wireless usb keyboard & mouse. It's a lot easier to tweak a machine in your living room when you're not on the floor.
2. Sewell PC to TV converter. Since I for now have tube TV's, this thing makes it a lot easier to do the initial setup/install (before the tv-out gets turned on).

[floh-511]

Hardware
Case: Lian-Li PC-Q7B
Motherboard: Asus IONT-5
CPU: Intel Atom 2x 1.8 GHz
RAM: 4 GB Kingston ValueRAM (SO-DIMM !!)
Video Card: onboard, NVIDIA ION w. 512MB dedicated video RAM
Sound Card: onboard, don´t know what chip
HD: Kingston SSDNow 2.5" SSD
Remote: MCE, Hama
Tuners: digital devices cineS2
Country: Germany
TV provider: -
TV signal type: digital satellite TV (Astra)
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10.

Performance:
Machine is solo FE/BE.
Additional hardware: A LiteOn ihos104 Blu-Ray drive and that´s it. Everything pretty much works out of the box.
The tuner card requires some work with the drivers and firmware but is easy to do even for noobs like me with support from www.linuxtv.org.

HD playback (transcoded Blu-Ray rips, mp4 or mkv) runs beautifully, better than on my old Athlon X2 machine w. ATI GFX card (and this machine is FANLESS and has a 26W TDP rating!)
Raw blu-ray files (m2ts) tax my network capacity and since I only have 64 gigs of hard drive space storing locally is not an option.

Digital Audio (SPDIF) did not work right away. Solution: ALSA mixer has this muted by default. run the mixer from a terminal window, unmute it and there you go.

Live TV is currently not working, I have some issues because I botched the initial install and config of the backend. Not the capture card´s fault though, I specifically chose it because it has great Linux support.

[newlinux]

I've updated my hardware and software a number of times since my original post, so I thought I'd post a link back to it here.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5485661#post5485661

[el_Paraguayo]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA870A-UD3
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 245e
RAM: 4GB (4GB kit (2GBx2), 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-10600)
Video Card: MSI M210-ND512H
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 160Gb primary, 2Tb for media
Remote: Creative SB0540 receiver with RM1500 remote
Tuners: Haupaugge Nova-T PCI
Country: UK
TV provider: Aerial
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 10.10

All ok except Mythbuntu does not powerdown (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1692877) successfully.


EDIT: looks like the Nova-T is giving me an irq conflict. It records fine, just won't let the machine powerdown.

[Catiline]

Hardware
Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L (http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3485#ov)
CPU:Intel Pentium E5400 (http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40478) dual core 2.7GHz
RAM:Corsair XMS2 (http://www.corsair.com/memory/xms-classic/xms2-ddr2-memory/cm2x2048-6400c5.html) 2GB
Video Card: ASUS GeForce EN210 (http://commercial.asus.com/product/detail/99) Silent 512MB
Sound Card:On board - using analogue through HiFi amp.
HD: Samsung 1TB
Remote:Hauppauge A415-HPG-UE
Tuners:Hauppauge Nova S-Plus
Country: UK
TV provider: Freesat
TV signal type: DVB-S
Mythbuntu Version: MythTV 0.23-fixes 24158 on a standard Ubuntu 10.04 desktop install.

All hardware worked out of the box. The remote works but has limited functionality. I'm still trying to work the issue out with lirc. Other than that very pleased (and relieved!) that the install has been pretty painless. The only real issue being the bewildering array of setup options in MythTV.

The only reason I installed MythTV on top of an Ubuntu desktop was that I hated the XFCE desktop that came with Mythbuntu.

To install I followed the guide at: http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_about.php . Very easy to follow.

[KevinJaeger]

I have a combined Myth Frontend/backend dedicated to Myth service. It sits in the TV cabinet with no keyboard, mouse or monitor and gets administered over the wireless network interface.

Software: MythBuntu 11.04

Hardware:
Silverstone G4 HTPC case
Gigabyte GA-880GM-D2H motherboard
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 840
Integrated ATI 4250 Graphics
Hauppauge PVR-350 TV Capture card with Grey Remote
IR Blaster from irblaster.info with a Scientific Atlanta set top box
Realtek 8190 Wireless network with WPA2 encryption (needed to use ndiswrapper)

Most things installed and worked as expected with two exceptions:
1. I have still been unable to get HDMI audio out of the ATI 4250 (analog audio works fine). Would love to hear from someone who has managed to get that to work.

2. The PVR-350 remote did not work with LIRC. I was unable to resolve constant double events, among other issues. I eventually stopped using LIRC and just mapped the keys directly to Myth Frontend keyboard shortcuts in /etc/rc_keymaps, with X using it directly as a keyboard. This works fine but makes it difficult to use the remote with other applications, such as VLC.

Overall, performance is excellent. Still fiddling with the myriad playback settings and filters to optimize the playback quality.

[Nausser]

Perfect integration of an old 1970s Zenith Console stereo system(still works) and Mythbuntu 11.04. Summed up all the basics in a youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6cz08v14k
Enjoy!

[Slate8]

Perfect integration of an old 1970s Zenith Console stereo system(still works) and Mythbuntu 11.04. Summed up all the basics in a youtube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm6cz08v14k
Enjoy!

Haha - that is nuts, but awesome!

[jerg]

Motherboard: MSI X58 PRO-E
CPU: Intel Core i7 930 (1366)
RAM: 10GB (1x2GB) Patriot Sector5 (PC3-10666, 1333MHz),(2x4GB) Kingston
Video Card: XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1 GB GDDR5 (XXX Edition)
Sound Card: RealTek
HD: Segate 250GB 7200RPM
Remote: Yes
Tuners: Hauppauge 1600 model 1199
Country: Belize
TV provider: CBC
TV signal type: NTSC/ClearQAM
kubuntu: 11.04


Can't get TV tuner to work. I read maybe that it has to do with the fact that ATI cards can't do over-lacing or something to that effect. I don't understand i figured it can work in my Windows 7 then it can sure as hell work in Ubuntu.

I had a pervious Avantek TV Tuner (don't even remember the model but I know its only Analog NTSC) that worked in this same Ubuntu using TVTime.

When I tried to run TVTime with my new Hauppauge card the program crash ...so I try to execute TVTime through the terminal in hopes of getting back some error message and voila:


Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/j3rg/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.



Well thats where I am at at ....hope that some Ubuntu mad scientist can help me ...thanks in advance I will keep trying to get my card to work

1 love

[vidtek]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68 UD4B3
CPU: i7
RAM: 16gb
Video Card: Nvidia GTS250
Sound Card: onboard ALC889 (using coax SPDIF)
HD: assorted 4tb
Remote: Topseed
Tuners: Compro E900F Hauppauge 2200 Divico PCI Fusion HDTV Compro USB U300
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: Western Australia
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: ABC 7, 9 10 SBS WTV
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): Terrestrial digital
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10 11.04 Natty

Performance

:sad: Compro E900F - no drivers-no linux function at all although hardware is tantalizingly close to the

:smile: Hauppauge HR2200 which works after some serious driver install issues with Natty.

:KS Both the Compro USB U300 and the Divico PCI Fusion HDTV cards have inbuilt support from Ubuntu kernel, enabling them is the same a enabling Nvidia drivers from Mythbuntu Control Centre.

Tony.

Update- 17-10-2011 see new post

[badger_fruit]

Hello forums! Here is my configuration and results ...

Hardware
Motherboard: Unsure, it's the 'default' one provided with the machine (Dell Poweredge SC430)
CPU: P4 630, 3.0GHZ/2MB
RAM: 1GB SINGLE RANK 533MHZ ECC MEMORY (2X512)
Video Card: N/A
Sound Card: N/A
HD: 80GB SATA for OS and 1TB SATA for recordings
Remote: N/A
Tuners: TD500 (single tuner)
Country: UK
TV provider: FREEVIEW
TV signal type: DVB-T
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04

Performance

Works flawlessly as a back-end machine, my front-ends are windows XP SP3 with the MythTV player software (which is flawed but does a good enough job in all fairness).

[bbruenfl]

Hardware
Motherboard: ASRock A75M-ITX FM1 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157273)
CPU: AMD A4-3400 Llano 2.7GHz Socket FM1 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103955)
RAM:G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231253)
Video Card: APU...
Sound Card: Realtek ALC892 Onboard SPDIF Optical
HD: 160GB HD...old don't recall brand etc.
Remote: None
Tuners: None
Country: USA
TV provider: Brighthouse
TV signal type:
Mythbuntu Version: 11.10 w/Ubuntu 11.10 desktop and 11.9 amd proprietary driver

Performance

Overall performance is good.
Audio works out of the box.
A few problems (familiar to AMD users): Cannot use OpenGL for menus or video playback without issues when switching between watching video, menus, and desktop. Disabling all desktop effects solves some problems.
Tearing (minor) when using ffmpeg and xv-blit.
Occasional "pink screen" when starting HD content.
MythTV Frontend appears below top menu bar (compiz workaround does not solve). Switched to 2D desktop to solve problem.

Sorry if I went overboard here but I thought I would share all the issues that I've found.

Cheers.

[vidtek]

17-10-2011 Update-

Hardware
F/E + Secondary B/E
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68 UD4B3
CPU: i7
RAM: 16gb
Video Card: Nvidia GTS450
Sound Card: onboard ALC889 (using coax SPDIF)
HD: assorted 4tb
Remote: Topseed
Tuners: Compro E900F Hauppauge 2200
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: Western Australia
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: ABC, 7, 9 10 SBS WTV
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): Terrestrial digital
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10 11.04 Natty ******will update soon**** to Ocelot.


Hardware
Primary B/E (very occasional frontend if I'm working in garage and want music)
Motherboard: Asus mobo P5G41T-m LX
CPU: Core2 Duo Socket 775
RAM: 8gb
Video Card: Nvidia GTS250
Sound Card: onboard ALC889 (using coax SPDIF)
HD: assorted 1.5tb
Remote: None
Tuners: Divico PCI Fusion HDTV Compro USB U300
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: Western Australia
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: ABC, 7, 9 10 SBS WTV
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): Terrestrial digital
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10 11.10 Ocelot

Performance

:sad: Compro E900F - no drivers-no linux function at all although hardware is tantalizingly close to the

:smile: Hauppauge HR2200 which works after some serious driver install issues with Natty.

:KS Both the Compro USB U300 and the Divico PCI Fusion HDTV cards have inbuilt support from Ubuntu kernel, enabling them is the same a enabling Nvidia drivers from Mythbuntu Control Centre.


Installed 11.10 Mythbuntu Ocelot no hitches on the new B/E. This surprised and delighted me as I changed everything, hardware platform AMD to an Intel based mobo and new O/S.
It looks as though Mythbuntu is coming of age, a hearty well done to all who contributed to this O/S.
Will attempt update on F/E to same, but am taking ghost of machine first. Will report back with results soon. I hope the HR2200 install will be easier with Ocelot.
Anyone heard anything about Compro E900 Linux Drivers yet?

Tony

[trippy21]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte M85M-US2H
CPU: AMD Ahtlon X2 5050e
RAM: 4GB
Video Card: On board NVIDIA 8200 chipset
Sound Card: On board NVDIA
HD: 60GB and a QNAP turbo NAS 1.5TB for DVD and CD library
Remote: Hauppauge & iPhone
Tuners: Hauppauge HVR4000
Country: UK
TV provider: Freeview and Freesat
TV signal type: DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-S2
Mythbuntu Version: 11.10

Performance
All working ok after a weekend of setting up. Firmware for HVR4000 had to be installed manually, used the details on linuxtv.org and installed v1.26.90.0 currently working on combing Freeview and Freesat channel lists and need to sort out a sound problem with the WebTV, i.e. BBC iPlayer and youtube.
Looking forward to ditching SKY, just need to run some more feeds from my LNB so i can run a parrallel system, to test the wife out on its use!
upgrade plans include obviously a bigger hard drive once i've proven it all works, with Xmas coming i'm thinking a SSD drive for the OS and a TB6981 card to give more Freesat streams.
Remote needs reviewing, maybe i can persuade the wife an iPad is the way forward!

[bobwdn]

Hello everyone, this is a work in progress.

Hardware
Motherboard: ASUS P4P800
CPU: Pentium4 3.0Ghz/512/800
RAM: 2Gb PC3200 (400mHz)
Video Card: Nvidia 6200
Sound Card: Onboard MB
HD: Primary 20.4Gb (ide) Secondary 2Tb (sata)
Remote: Hauppauge (gray)
Tuners: Hauppauge DVR-1600
Country: USA
TV provider: Directv
TV signal type: ?
Mythbuntu Version: v11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Performance:
Still configuring, however, this is my first box. If all goes well (so far, so good) I'll build a much bigger and faster secondary backend and this one will act as the primary backend.

[jamoody]

Hardware
Motherboard: Intel BOXDP35DPM
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 3.0 GHz
RAM: 4x1G DDR2 800 MHz (PC2 6400)
Video Card: Galaxy GeForce 9500GT 95TFE8HUFEXN
Sound Card: on board
HD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ
Remote: StreamZap
Tuners: pcHDTC HD5500, Silicondust HDHomeRun Prime
Country: USA
TV provider: Comcast
TV signal type: ATSC
Mythbuntu Version: 10.04

Performance

Works great, processor is a bit overkill (playback of HD only uses 30% of one processor), but makes commercial flagging (CPU intensive) much faster. __________________

[vidtek]

17-10-2011 Update-

Hardware
F/E + Secondary B/E
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68 UD4B3
CPU: i7
RAM: 16gb
Video Card: Nvidia GTS450
Sound Card: onboard ALC889 (using coax SPDIF)
HD: assorted 4tb
Remote: Topseed
Tuners: Compro E900F Hauppauge 2200
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: Western Australia
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: ABC, 7, 9 10 SBS WTV
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): Terrestrial digital
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10 11.04 Natty ******will update soon**** to Ocelot.


Hardware
Primary B/E (very occasional frontend if I'm working in garage and want music)
Motherboard: Asus mobo P5G41T-m LX
CPU: Core2 Duo Socket 775
RAM: 8gb
Video Card: Nvidia GTS250
Sound Card: onboard ALC889 (using coax SPDIF)
HD: assorted 1.5tb
Remote: None
Tuners: Divico PCI Fusion HDTV Compro USB U300
Country: E.g. the Netherlands: Western Australia
TV provider: E.g. canal digital: ABC, 7, 9 10 SBS WTV
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite): Terrestrial digital
Mythbuntu Version: E.g. 8.10 11.10 Ocelot

Performance

:sad: Compro E900F - no drivers-no linux function at all although hardware is tantalizingly close to the

:smile: Hauppauge HR2200 which works after some serious driver install issues with Natty.

:KS Both the Compro USB U300 and the Divico PCI Fusion HDTV cards have inbuilt support from Ubuntu kernel, enabling them is the same a enabling Nvidia drivers from Mythbuntu Control Centre.


Installed 11.10 Mythbuntu Ocelot no hitches on the new B/E. This surprised and delighted me as I changed everything, hardware platform AMD to an Intel based mobo and new O/S.
It looks as though Mythbuntu is coming of age, a hearty well done to all who contributed to this O/S.
Will attempt update on F/E to same, but am taking ghost of machine first. Will report back with results soon. I hope the HR2200 install will be easier with Ocelot.
Anyone heard anything about Compro E900 Linux Drivers yet?

Tony


Tried installing 11.10 Ocelot on main Gigabyte Z68 machine but failed dismally. Unable to get the Hvr2200 to work at all.

Reverted back to Natty 11.04 kernel 2.6.38-12-generic on ghosted image.
Maybe the next incarnation in April will have proper support for the Hvr2200/2250 cards.

If anyone has managed to get the Hvr2200/2250 to work can they please post a how-to?

Tony

[kenyee]

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68MX-UD2H-B3
CPU: 2500K
RAM: 16GB
Video/Sound: no separate cards needed
MythBuntu version: 11.10 with Myth 0.25 and libva
Tuner: HDHomerun

[newlinux]

Thought I'd post a link now to my 3 year old post that I just keep updated with my hardware:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5485661#post5485661

[langner]

Hi,

I can't post much about the PC, will nothing really, it is old. The only new thing on it is the Digital satellite tv card that works fine.

Hardware
TBS 8920 Digital satellite TV card DVB S2 (PCI)

running Myth 0.24.1, ubuntu 11.10

[homewood]

Hardware EMachines T1742
Motherboard:
CPU: 1.7Ghz
RAM:2Gb
Video Card: onboard
Sound Card: onboard
HD: 2-500Gb
Remote:
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600
Country: USA:
TV provider: Charter Cable
TV signal type: Analog
Mythbuntu Version: 11.10

Performance

Couldn't get the tuner working with .iso distro. I built/installed the latest drivers from linuxtv and got things working

[dangerous_d]

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 LGA 1155 Z68 mATX
CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3GHz
RAM: 8G DDR3 1333MHz
Video Card: PNY GT440 1G DDR5
Sound Card: Motherboard SPDIF
HD: WD blue 250GB 6GB/s (moving to 2TB very soon!)
Remote: Hauppauge HD-PVR IR blaster
Tuners: Hauppauge HD-PVR
Country: USA
TV provider: Comcast Xfinity
TV signal type: Cable
Mythbuntu Version: 11.10/0.24.x

Performance
It's my primary front/back device and it basically worked out-of-the-box. I use high-quality VDPAU for playback and high-quality recording with real time commercial detection. The system has plenty of extra resources.

The graphics card cooling fan was too loud so I unplugged it and it occasionally overheats. The channel changer is imperfect and it occasionally ends up on the wrong channel for a recording. Otherwise I'm very pleased.

[novellahub]

Updating my last hardware posts. Just upgraded my Master Backend/Frontend with a new Hex Core AMD processor. Also added a HDHR Prime and retired a old Slave SD Recording system.

Master Backend / Frontend:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8129716&postcount=236

Slave Frontend:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8294065&postcount=248

Retired:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5882582&postcount=152

[ecwanet]

Hardware Primary BE/FE
Motherboard:ASRock M3A785GM-LE/128M
CPU:AMD Phenom II X2 555
RAM:4GB DDR3 1600
Video Card: onboard Radeon HD4200 dual VGA/DVI-D
Sound Card: onboard ALC662 HD
HD: Samsung 2.5in 250GB, 2 x Samsung 3.5in 2TB eco green
Remote: Ortek vrc-1100
Tuners: BlackGold BGT3650 quad DVB-T2
Country: UK
TV provider: Freeview
TV signal type: DVB-T2
Mythbuntu Version: 11.10
Triple boot Mythbuntu//Slackware 13.37/ Windows 7

Performance
Records at least four channels simultaneously. Not got to grips with profiles yet for best playback. Don't like AMD video drivers. ALSA driver settings need some work.

Sometimes after changing channel, reception (video and audio) is completely garbled and does not recover itself. Changing to another channel and back again immediately usually corrects the problem. I should probably start a thread for it.

[blackadam]

Processor
Type Intel Extreme Edition 840 3.2 GHz
Mainboard
Chipset type Intel 955X
Data bus speed 800.0 MHz
RAM
Installed Size 6.0 GB DDR2
Storage
Hard Drive 750.0 GB - Standard - Serial ATA
Hard Drive Storage 1TB
Optical Storage
Type DVD-ROM
Read Speed 16x
Optical Storage (2nd)
Read Speed 16x
Monitor
Monitor Type LCD display
Diagonal Size 20.1 in
Viewable Size 20.1 in
Graphics Controller
Video Memory 256.0 MB / 256.0 MB (max)
Audio Output
Type Sound card - Integrated
Audio Adapter Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Operating System / Software
Linux Oneric Ocelot

My Storage Drive is set somehow to read only and i don't know how to edit it so that i can use it like normal if anyone can help me out with that

[vidtek]

Processor
Type Intel Extreme Edition 840 3.2 GHz
Mainboard
Chipset type Intel 955X
Data bus speed 800.0 MHz
RAM
Installed Size 6.0 GB DDR2
Storage
Hard Drive 750.0 GB - Standard - Serial ATA
Hard Drive Storage 1TB
Optical Storage
Type DVD-ROM
Read Speed 16x
Optical Storage (2nd)
Read Speed 16x
Monitor
Monitor Type LCD display
Diagonal Size 20.1 in
Viewable Size 20.1 in
Graphics Controller
Video Memory 256.0 MB / 256.0 MB (max)
Audio Output
Type Sound card - Integrated
Audio Adapter Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Operating System / Software
Linux Oneric Ocelot

My Storage Drive is set somehow to read only and i don't know how to edit it so that i can use it like normal if anyone can help me out with that

Blackdam-

You don't list your tuner card or interface.
How is the storage drive formatted?
When you mount it you need to ensure you have read/write permissions
both for your normal user and for mythtv.
Tony.

[Henk Poley]

Terratec C1500 CI, a DVB-C tuner with CI slot daughtercard, "new" hardware revision, with coax plugs ("tulip" plugs).

Works but does not support QAM256 properly. Might be possible to get to work by figuring out better sweeprate (etc.) values for the stv0297 tuner driver.


02:09.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Technotrend Systemtechnik GmbH Device 1010
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 17
Memory at fdefe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Kernel driver in use: budget_ci dvb
Kernel modules: budget-ci

Class: 0x048000
Vendor: 0x1131
Device: 0x7146
SubVendor: 0x13c2
SubDevice: 0x1010

[GiggsyR]

Hardware
CPU: AMD64 Dual Core 2.6 Ghz
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce 8600gt, 256 mb
Remote: none yet
HD: 80 gb hard drive
Tuners:
Hauppauge HVR-1300
Medion Creatix Hybrid

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional except for Analog.