Please post your Functional/Non Functional Hardware [Archive]

superm1

October 3rd, 2007, 04:12 PM

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.

Please don't hijack the thread with trying to diagnose problems you are encountering, make a separate thread for that. Just a simple works/doesn't work followed by a short description will suffice. Hopefully a lot of the problems people encounter will be simple solutions (such as manually adding a remote configuration), but still a separate thread is much preferred to using this thread again. If you have a piece of hardware that you got to work though the help of the forums or other online source, a link to that would be great.

A sample post can look something like this:

Hardware
CPU: Intel pentium4 2.8 Ghz
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA 7600gt, 256 mb
Remote: mceusb2
HD: 60 gb hard drive
Tuners:
Hauppauge PVR-350
Silicon Dust HDHomerun

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Had to install nvidia proprietary drivers before able to use HD playback.

A blank template for your convenience

Hardware
Motherboard:
CPU:
RAM:
Video Card:
Sound Card:
HD:
Remote:
Tuners:
Country: E.g. the Netherlands:
TV provider: E.g. canal digital:
TV signal type: E.g. DVB-S (satellite):

Performance

tgm4883

October 3rd, 2007, 05:24 PM

Hardware (myrtle)
Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
CPU: AMD Athlon X2 3800+
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA 6100 (onboard)
Sound Card:IDK, whatever is onboard a Gigabyte GA-M61VME-S2
HD: 500 GB SATA hard drive
Remote: MCEUSB2
Tuners:
Hauppauge PVR-150
pvHDTV 5500

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Had to install nvidia proprietary drivers before able to use HD playback.

Hardware(zeus)
Setup: Slave Backend (and fileserver)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2000+
RAM: 768 gb ram
Video Card: Some old video card
Sound Card: IDK, don't matter on backend only
HD: 160 GB hard drive
HD2: Various Hard Drives for file storage (Files, Videos, Music, Pictures)
Remote: None
Tuners:
Motorola 6200 STB streaming over firewire

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Firewire works OK. Some channels are flaky because of they way they are broadcast (poorly) from the cable company. I haven't bothered to talk to the cable company about it hasn't become a problem for me yet.

pdragon04

October 4th, 2007, 05:15 PM

Hardware
CPU: 2.8Ghz Celeron
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: GeForce 5500 using S-Video out to TV
HD: 250GB (50gb ext3 base install; 200gb xfs for recordings)
HD2: 750gb (xfs; extra storage for dvd-rips, etc)
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-150

Performance
Had to boot into Safe Graphics Mode to install.
After install, everything working perfect.

mndbndr

October 4th, 2007, 07:00 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD64 AM2 3800
RAM: 2 GB Crucial Balisitc
Video Card: EVGA 7600GT 512MB
HD: 3 500 GB SATA3
Tuners: Twinahn 102G, Avermedia A180 HD
Sound Card: X-Fi Elite Pro, onboard sound

Performance
Had to boot into Safe Graphics Mode to install.
Installed X-Fi beta driver after install.

crmullins

October 5th, 2007, 08:35 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD64 Socket 754 Newcastle 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 5200 FX 128 MB using DVI -> HDMI cable
HDD1: 200 GB SATA (10 GB ext3 base install; remainder for future expansion)
HDD2: 200 GB SATA (200 GB xfs for recordings)
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-500
Remote: Windows MCE usbmce2

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Had to use lcd monitor for install before hooking up to my plasma tv.
Had to disable screensaver to watch anything over 10 mins long.
Remote worked from the get-go.
Easiest installation I've encountered so far and I've tried them all!

drven1005

October 6th, 2007, 01:05 AM

This is an Intel Mac Mini.

Hardware
CPU:Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: Intel i810
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
Remote: Stream Zap

I've ran in to a few small issues. First, by default the mac mini while connected to an hdtv via dvi is stuck at 640x480. This is true during the install. I had to alt+drag to move the menus around so I could see the forward button.

That wasn't a big deal. The main problem is with the video drivers. Mythbuntu decided to use the "intel" driver. While it did get me X on my tv and I could go through mythtv-setup and the frontend, when I tried to watch a recorded program, it looked awful. Very red, colors seemed to bleed etc..

To fix this, I had to change to the i810 driver by modifying the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually.

The other problem I found while installing on a different machine with an nvidia card is that the installer likes to use the open source "nv" driver, which does not support TV out. So to install this on my backend, which doesn't have a monitor, I had to drop to a virtual terminal and modify the xorg.conf to use vesa and then restart gdm. Same problem again where I couldn't see the forward buttons.

Other than that, so far so good.

Other than that, so far so good.

Well I spoke too soon. When you use the i810 driver, all you get is a blue screen when you try to watch HD content.

To get around this, I had to add:

Option "LinearAlloc" "16384"

to my xorg.conf file. Notes from: http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_MythTV_on_an_Intel_Mac_Mini_using_Ubunt u#Viewing_HD_Material

Using the i810 driver also breaks the display resolution utility.

superm1

October 6th, 2007, 01:54 AM

This is an Intel Mac Mini.

Hardware
CPU:Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2300 @ 1.66GHz
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: Intel i810
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family)
Remote: Stream Zap

I've ran in to a few small issues. First, by default the mac mini while connected to an hdtv via dvi is stuck at 640x480. This is true during the install. I had to alt+drag to move the menus around so I could see the forward button.

That wasn't a big deal. The main problem is with the video drivers. Mythbuntu decided to use the "intel" driver. While it did get me X on my tv and I could go through mythtv-setup and the frontend, when I tried to watch a recorded program, it looked awful. Very red, colors seemed to bleed etc..

To fix this, I had to change to the i810 driver by modifying the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually.

The other problem I found while installing on a different machine with an nvidia card is that the installer likes to use the open source "nv" driver, which does not support TV out. So to install this on my backend, which doesn't have a monitor, I had to drop to a virtual terminal and modify the xorg.conf to use vesa and then restart gdm. Same problem again where I couldn't see the forward buttons.

Other than that, so far so good.
Please start another thread regarding this issue if you can. Detail everything you've already mentioned here. (Don't want to clutter this one). I've got some points to bring up from a discussion with the xorg maintainer tonight.

spoky99

October 7th, 2007, 06:45 AM

Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
Hardware
Motherboard: Mini-ITX Motherboard LV-671
CPU: Pentium Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
RAM: 512 (work well also with only 256 Mb)
Video Card: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
Sound Card: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
HD: now only 40 Gb
Remote: grey hauppauge and M$ mce remote via USB
Tuners: 1 hauppauge PVR150 MCE and 1 hauppauge PVR150 (i tryed also one PVR350 but.. the tuner is less sensitive than the PVR150 I don't know is the hardware is damaged ;) I buy it used)

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
I had some problem for the tvout, lcd (crystalfontz 634) and acpi autoboot
the tv out was only a problem of configuration (I will post the xorg.conf)
the lcd was solved (thanks to superM and maxnuv)
I'm working o the ACPI (is not true.. we are working :) )

I also installed the mythbuntu into other computer... I will post the hardware list and the problem soon

p$y

October 7th, 2007, 10:00 AM

Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
Hardware
CPU: Pentium 4 / 2,6 Ghz
RAM: 1024 DDR
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 8400GS
Sound Card: Via OnBoard / Soundblaster Live 5.1
HD: 80 GB mythbuntu installed
160 GB with a mountpoint at /var/lib/mythtv
Remote: X10 Medion Remote
Tuners: DVB-T Siemens Mobile
DVB-T MSI Megasky 580
Hauppauge DVB-S

Performance
The OnBoard sound sometimes doesnt work / Soundblaster not recognized (known Ubuntu problem)
Had to download the firmware for the MSI Megasky
the 160GB aren't recognized (Mythweb says there is only the 80GB) mybe my faul (first time set such a mount point)
Had to install in safe graphical mode (installed with tvout/s-video)
Only few functions for the remote (no rewind etc...)
(lircd.conf from http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Fernbedienung_-_USB_X10)

gareththered

October 7th, 2007, 12:41 PM

Hardware
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 @ 2.6GHz
RAM: 1Gb
Video Card: Geforce 6200
Sound Card: Soundblaster Live! 5.1
HD: 40Gb PATA & 80 Gb PATA
Remote: Hauppauge Remote ( Does NOT Work :-( )
Tuners: Hauppauge Nova T-500 (Dual DVB-T)

Works very well apart from the IR Remote.
Video card and Sound card detected first time, although I had to use 'asoundconf' to set my SoundBlaster Live! to be the default one instead of the onboard chip.

stevetv

October 8th, 2007, 02:03 AM

hi there... first time poster. i wasnt sure if i was suposed to reply to this post or start a new one.

regardless.. maybe this is a new forum? .. so i wanted to post my experiences. it was positive.

Hardware
Mobo: gigabyte GA-7N400 (its fine.. but it doesnt have sata connectors)
CPU: athlon XP 3200+ underclocked to around 2000mhz socket a
RAM: 1 gig (2 x 512) corsair value select DDR
Video Card: winfast leadtek GF7300GT. connected via component cables to a SD CRT tv.
Sound Card:nvidia onboard.
HD:samsung 400g pata
Remote: streamzap - im not thrilled with the default mapping so ill change it
Tuners: Technisat AirStar 2 DVB-T .. required me to update vlc.

i needed to update VLC before the tuner card would be detected.
the video card was detected fine.. which was nice.

i live in australia. i believe that i asked for xmltv to be installed, but it didn't do it for me. i had to install xmltv via apt-get. I then needed to create tv_grab_au and modify that to suit. I used a piece of code written by manicmike from the knoppmyth forums. his code sets up tv_grab_au. i needed to modify the code to fit the mythbuntu file structure.. but it worked perfectly.

i enjoyed this setup. thanks to those that worked on it.

jmbarra78

October 8th, 2007, 04:37 PM

Hardware
Barebome MSI MEGA PC 651
CPU: Pentium 4 2,6 Mhz
RAM: 1 GB DDR 400
Video Card: nVidia FX 5500
Sound Card: Realtek ALC 650
HD: Maxtor 250 GB ATA 133
Remote: Nova-T 500 Remote control
Tuners: Hauppauge NOVA-T 500

All hardware works fine except remote control... I Worked with Ubuntu 7.04 but in 7.10 doesn't work...

dmf86

October 8th, 2007, 05:35 PM

ATI Radeon 9200 (Only works in VESA mode) - Worked fine in 7.04

tgm4883

October 8th, 2007, 05:37 PM

ATI Radeon 9200 (Only works in VESA mode) - Worked fine in 7.04

Was there anything else about your hardware that you wanted to tell us?

jpwilson

October 8th, 2007, 08:42 PM

Backend (running)
Hardware
CPU: Athlon 4400 X2 (low power)
RAM: 1 gig
Video Card: NVidia 7600
Sound Card: Onboard (Via)
HD: 320 Gb Seagate Sata
Remote: NA
Tuners: 1 x Haup Nova-T 500

Frontend 1 (work in progress)
Hardware
CPU: VIA C3 1000MHz
RAM: 512Mb
Video Card: Unichrome Pro
Sound Card: On board
HD: 4 gig USB Drive
Remote: MCE Remote
Tuners: NA

gtr33m

October 8th, 2007, 10:56 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon 3000+
RAM: 2.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA 7300gt, 256 mb
HD: 80 gb ext3 for O/S and recording, 500 gb NTFS for data storage
Tuners:
Ultraview (DVico) DVB-T Plus

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Made changes to /etc/modprobe.d/aliases and created /etc/modprobe.d/dvico. May not have been necessary but always had to before to get MythTV working.
No problems with HD, runs smoothly

bowmanr@mailcity.com

October 9th, 2007, 05:22 AM

Combined Backend/Frontend

Hardware
CPU: Pentium IV 1.8
RAM: 512Mb
Video Card: nVidia FX5200
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 1 x 80Gb, 1 x 500Gb
Remote: Hauppauge
Tuners: 2 x Hauppauge PVR-350

Performance
All SD, works abolutely fine even when recording on both tuners whilst watching liveTV from one of the tuners and streaming recordings to remote frontend.
Also used as home file server via samba, no negative impact on performance.

Remote Frontend #1 -- wired mini desktop

Hardware
CPU: AMD Sempron 2600
RAM: 512Mb
Video Card: Onboard
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 1 x 160Gb
Remote: Serial (Igor)
Tuners: n/a

Performance
Perfectly acceptable performance watching SD streams from the backend and watching DVDs from local player.

Remote Frontend #2 -- wireless laptop

Hardware
Model: IBM R50e 1834
CPU: Pentium M
RAM: 768Mb
Video Card: Onboard
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 1 x 40Gb
Remote: none
Tuners: n/a

Performance
Reasonable performance watching SD streams from the backend, occasional prebuffering pauses (once or twice an hour). Prebuffering maybe network related as DVD playback absolutely fine.

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Note : not mythbuntu boxes, 7.04 install following community install docs

rusty0101

October 9th, 2007, 11:09 AM

Master back end - Beast

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
RAM: 1 gig ram 2 gig swap
Video Card: nVidia GeForce FX 5200
Sound Card: nForce2 AC97
HD: 3 400 gig 7200 rpm Segate Barracuda pata drives, 1 dvd+/-rw. hda configured with 92 gig root, 2 gig swap, remaining added to lvm group. hdb and hdc dedicated entirely to lvm group. total in lvm comes out to 1 Tbyte
Remote: Hauppauge Grey
Tuners: 3 Hauppauge pvr-250 tuners in case, 2 silicon graphics hdhomerun receivers outside. The three 250s are capturing analog cable, oen hdhomerun is capturing unencrypted digital cable, 1 is capturing off the air hdtv content.

Performance This box currently has a front end running on it, however I am likely to be removing that functionality in the reasonably near future. I have succesfully captured 2 hdtv (not just digital tv) channals and 2 analog channels simultaniously. That is possible because all of the tuners are streaming mpeg2 content already compressed and the system itself is primarily just keeping track of what files are open and where it should be dumping the data. It is serving up content to the front end described below (Beauty) and is making content available to other systems in my home running the mythtv front end software. Those systems are running a combination of gutsy and feisty and have accessed with no problem. One of the reasons that this is not running as a front end is that the HDTV content is not displayed in an acceptable fassion. This box has run Knopmyth for over a year with half the memory and a slower processor. I had hoped that the 2400 processor I had pulled form a motherboard that would not have functioned well (VIA chipset bios, exhibits known DMA crashinb behaviour) would have helped with that, no luck.

Front end - Beauty
Hardware
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
RAM: 512 Meg ram, 1.5 Gig swap
Video Card: nVidia GeForoce 6200
Sound Card: embeded Intel ICH4/ICM4-L/ICM4-M AC'97 controler
HD: Seagate baracuda 160 gig drive (smallest I could find when the 30 gig that came with the system died), cd-rw/dvd-ram
Remote: Streamzap pc remote
Tuners: none

Performance This started as an IBM netvista that came with the described Intel processor, memory audio and a cd-rw/dvd-ram drive. The embeded intel video could only be configured in bios to accept 8 meg of stolen memory, and no matter what I tried I was never able to get HDTV to succesfully play through that video interface. The hard drive (30 gig) that came with it, died slaming it's heads against the wall, so I picked up the smallest new hard drive I could find. (generally happy with Segate drives up to this point, but was not specifically looking for that) With the GeForce 6200, the propriatary 3D enhanced-new drivers and the Preferred MPEG2 Decoder set to "Standard XvMC" HDTV content plays acceptably. The card also has 256 meg of ddr2 memory, though I'm not sure how much that helps. The card is 8x agp capable, but is only runing at 4x agp. Not sure if this is a limitation of the nVidia drivers or the motherboard.

You may note elsewhere that the minimum recomended specs for hdtv content are 3 gig. In general I support that recommendation. My front end is capable of hdtv content playback at an acceptable rate for me, but it is not doing hdtv recording at the same time. That is happening (if at all) on the back end system. The front end box that I have assembled totals about $35 in parts. I was not looking for 5.1 surround sound or digital audio out. This specific box uses a low profile format, and while the video card is a low profile card, it did not come with the low profile bracket. I consider this to be a flaw that I will be correcting at some point. But ti's why I am not advertising the manufacturer of this specific card.

Video output frm the front end is going through a 50 foot VGA cable to a DLP projector. The resolution is outside the native resolution for the projector which may be an issue for some users, however the projector ahs a native resolution of 1024x768. 1280x960 with the projector set to 16:9 and the format set to 16:9 works acceptably for me. For now the 'screen' is a wall painted white, which probably suggests to some people that I don't care about the quality as much as they do. That's ok too.

Configuring the Hauppauge remote on the front end still needs a few tweeks. Originally this system had been configured with the StreamZap remote, and the software to change remotes does not seem to know how to update the ~/.mythtv/lircrc file with the new profile. It involved a manual run of mythbuntu-lircrc-generator which gathered from the /etc/lircrc file that I was using a hauppauge receiver and generated a .lircrc file for me, with multiple hauppauge remotes defined. Minor chor editing out the Hauppauge_WinTV_Nexus-S, Hauppauge-350 and Hauppauge (non _pvr) lines. Some tweeking remains to make the channel up/down, blank, audio up/down, and color buttons usable, but it's not a priority at this time.

jmbarra78

October 9th, 2007, 12:34 PM

My Nova-T 500 control remote works fine!!

I follow this wiki:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI

mr_bungalow

October 10th, 2007, 10:36 AM

Combined frontend and backend

Hardware
CPU: P4 2.8 (Prescott) - Machspeed Motherboard
RAM: 1 Gig
Video Card: nVidia GeForce 5600
Sound Card: Onboard Sound (VIA 8533 - I think)
HD: 250 + 160 IDE Hard Drive
Remote: Zapway.de homebrew serial receiver (not working) w/ harmony remote
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-150

Performance: Forced to upgrade when I lost support on my FC4 machine this fall. I only use standard definition at this point in time and everything worked out of the box EXCEPT for the serial IR receiver. Thanks for the slick installer!

superm1

October 10th, 2007, 11:29 AM

gumperoncini

October 11th, 2007, 03:17 PM

Hardware
Dell GX260
CPU: P4 - 2.4GHz
RAM: 512mb
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce4 MX440
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: PATA 160GB
Remote: Black Hauppage "Vista" MCE Remote (1069)
Tuners: Hauppage PVR-150

Performance
I installed mythbuntu (mythbuntu-7.10~071002-i386) in less than an hour and everything worked perfectly straight away. Incredible! Especially since I have spent 100+ hours trying to get this to work on 2 versions of fedora, mythdora and 2 versions of Ubuntu 6.10, 7.04.

propagandhi

October 11th, 2007, 11:58 PM

I have two MythBoxes - the first one is here:

Hardware:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 LGA775 2.40Ghz 8MB L2 Cache 1066Mhz FSB
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800Mhz
DVD Drive: LG GSA-H62N SATA DVD Multi Drive
Video Card: Nvidia 8600GT 256MB PCI-Express
Sound Card: On Board HD audio ALC880 7.1 Ch
Motherboard Chipset: Intel G965+ICH8
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 750GB SATA HDD
Remote: DVICO USB MCE REMOTE
Tuners: DVICO Fusion HDTV5 Dual Express [/B]

Performance

* Need to add irqpoll to kernel boot parameters for normal boot, otherwise you experience either very slow boot or sometimes impossible to boot, just hangs. (tested this on 4 units i have deployed). This is something to do with the SATA setup)

* Currently have only one tuner of the dual tuners working. You have to check out the v4l-dvb latest source using mercurial, and then make and install it, then add to /etc/modprobe.d/options the line:

cx23885 card=4

This gets one of the dual tuners working at present.

Other than this everything works great!

propagandhi

October 12th, 2007, 12:08 AM

My second mythbox is here:

Hardware:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16Ghz
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800Mhz
Video Card: Nvidia 8600GT 256MB PCI-Express
Sound Card: On Board HD audio ALC880 7.1 Ch
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 750GB SATA HDD
Remote: DVICO USB MCE REMOTE
Tuners: DVICO Fusion HDTV Dual Digital 4 [/B]

Performance

* I had to follow these instructions to get the tuner card working:

http://fremnet.net/article/228/dvico-fusionhdtv-dual-digital-4-under-linux

Other than that, everything is just peachy!

ryanVickers

October 12th, 2007, 12:29 AM

see "Gutsy install thread" in signature ;)

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 (2.01Ghz) 3800+
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT
HD(s): Seagate 300GB (main), and Wester Digital 8GB (secondary), and Toshiba 20GB Laptop (external)
Motherboard: Asus A8V-E SE
RAM: Kingston 512MB (x2) (1GB total)
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 940BF
Mouse/Keyboard: Microsoft Digital Media Keyboard and 'generic' mouse :wink:

Tteddo

October 12th, 2007, 10:19 AM

Hardware
CPU: Athlon XP 2800+
RAM: 1 Gig
Video Card: Radeon 9550
Sound Card: NVidia nForce2 with ALC650F
HD: 40Gig Primary 200Gig Video
Remote: Ati Remote Wonder RF
Tuners: Hauppage PVR 500

Performance
All working in initial install except remote (still working on it)
Initial install for one desktop, now have digital out to 1080p TV at 1920x1080, and vga out to complete 2nd desktop to another monitor to use as computer.
1 regular PS2 KBD and Mouse, and 1 MS wireless USB KBD and mouse

mjezell

October 13th, 2007, 03:49 PM

Mythtv 2.02 Running on ubuntu 7.04 server

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Venice 2.2GHz
RAM: Kingston ValueRam DDR SDRAM 400 (PC 3200) 4@512MB
Video Card: Foxconn FV-N76SM3DT GeForce 7600GS 512MG 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Epress x16
Sound Card:Foxconn 761GXK8MB-RS On board Realtek ALC655 6 channel
HD: 1- Samsung IDE 20 Gig
2- Western Digital SATA 500 Gig
Remote: Hauppauge
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 PCI Interface 1045 Tuner Card

Performance: Had to stick with 7.04 server when I updated to .20.2 myth because of issues with using the restricted Nvidia drivers which caused myth to not see my tuner card. Other than that it was a pretty clean upgrade.

budge31

October 15th, 2007, 02:18 AM

Hi all.

Heres my working setup

Backend:

Mythbuntu 8.04
Winfast NF4UK8AA Motherboard.
Dualcore AMD 4200+
2.5 gig generic ram
7300LE Nvidia Graphics Card
640gb sata2 + 320gb sata2 +300gb sata2 +320gb PATA +320gb PATA for recordings
640gb sata2 + 500gb sata2 for Videos
1 200gb for OS and Music
2 DNTV Live! Tiny USB Devices (2 Tuners)
1 DNTV Live! Pro Tuner
2 Fusion HDTV Tuners

Frontend 1

MSI K8 Platinum Motherboard
AMD 3200+
1 GB Ram
100GB SATA 2 Samsung 2.5 inch Drive for OS.
Onboard NIC
Nvidia 8500 GT
Sony Bravia W-Series 46"
Onboard SPDif Out to Surround Sound Amp
Logitech Universal Remote

Frontend 2

Gigabyte 7n400L (Or something like it)
AMD Athlon 2800+
768 mb RAM
LG DVD Read/Writer
Gigabyte 7600GS Video Card Component Out to CRT TV
Onboard Soundcars SPDIF Fibre

Frontend 3
Dualboot Vista and Ubuntu (Testbox)
Intel Q6600 Quad core
4 GB Ram
Asus P5K/EPU Motherboard
8600gt Video card

Apart from my LVM becoming corrupt due to (I think) a faulty PSU, all working, and improving with every update.

Update: I ended up taking out the 8500gt as I didn't realise that the underscan/overscan feature was not available with the 8 series NVIDIA cards. I am outputting to a 32 inch WS CRT at the moment and the overscan makes it unwatchable. I am now running a second-hand 7600gt I swapped for the 8500gt with a mate. Not happy, but what can you do...? Getting a 42inch LCD sometime in the near future. That should cheer me up.
Update 2: Now have my Sony Bravia 46". The 8500gt problem mentioned above is no longer an issue.
Update 3: Since Mythtv 0.21 I have dumped the LVM and moved to storage directories. I now sleep much better instead of worrying about losing all my recordings to a faulty HD.
Update 4 : Upgraded the processor on the backend from a X2 3800+ to a X2 4200+ because I had one lying around. Also upgraded from 1 gb ram to 2.5gb of ram on the backend as the backend was running out of memory under certain circumstances (not anymore).

pavon

October 15th, 2007, 02:52 AM

Backend:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6320
RAM: 1 GB
Video: Onboard Intel 965G
Sound:Onboard Intel.
Ethernet:Onboard Intel.
HD: 250GB WD SATA
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-250
Remote:Hauppauge remote
OS: Ubuntu 7.04

Performance: Great. Wish it had TV-out so I could use it as a front end as well.

FrontEnd:
CPU: VIA Samuel 2 600MHz
RAM: 512 MB
Video: Onboard VIA CLE266
Sound:Onboard VIA
Ethernet: 3c905
HD: 2GB Flash
Tuners: N/A
Remote:Windows Media Center
OS: Mythbuntu 7.10 Beta

Performance:
Had to tweak xorg.conf file to get correct DPI, work around OSD hack.
Had to modify lircrc to get Back button working on remote.
Playback stutters on complex scenes, even after enabling (VIA) XvMC.
There is sometimes a very long (15 sec) delay in processing button presses on remote.
Performace seemed better with iMedia MythTV (had to stop using it when my onboard ethernet died, as it didn't have any other NIC drivers)

mynis

October 15th, 2007, 03:04 PM

CPU: am2 3800+ duo core
RAM: 2 gb patriot 800mhz ddr 5-5-5-12 (pdc22g6400elk)
Video: evga 8800+ gts factory over clock (320-P2-N815-AR)
Sound:m-audio delta 1010lt
Motherboard:Gigabyte ga-m55+ s3g rev 1.0
HD: 250GB + 320 GB Seagate SATA

sound card completely nonfunctional since kernel update, no known fix. everything else works perfect!

Crashedfiesta

October 17th, 2007, 05:13 PM

Hardware:
CPU: AMD XP1500 (really...)
RAM: 1Gb
DVD Drive: Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-R Re-writer
Video Card: Nvidia Geforce 2 MX/MX400 32Mb
Sound Card: On Board AC97 thingy
Motherboard Chipset: Errr...not too sure
HDD: Hitachi 160Gb IDE
Remote: Hauppage Grey one
Tuners: Hauppage PVR-150

Performance:

Failed. When booting from the CD my floppy drive goes into meltdown and then the installer drops back to the command prompt. The command /sbin/modprobe failed apparently...

It's supposed to be a combined front and backend and has worked successfully(ish) with Mythdora but I've always preferred Ubuntu.

am_pcguy

October 20th, 2007, 09:50 AM

Hardware:
ASUS P1-AH2 Barebones kit
CPU:AMD Athlon 64 4200+ X2
RAM: 2GB Mushkin DDRII 800 Dual Channel Kit
DVD Drive: LITE-ON LH-20A1L-05 20X DVD-RW SATA
Video Card: Nvidia 6150 (onboard video)
Sound Card: On Board Azalia ALC86-DTS
Motherboard Chipset: whatever comes with the P1-AH2
HDD: Western Digital 500GB SATA
Remote: Kworld
Tuners: Kworld 115
Display: Panasonic AE-700 Front Projector

This is my first MythTV install. I built the box and installed MythTV last night. The install was very smooth even though there don't appear to be instructions on how to install for Gutsy. I just used the Feisty instructions as a guide.

I followed these instructions for the Kworld 115 card: LINK (http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Kworld_ATSC_110)
I set up 3 programs to record and went to bed. They were all there this morning when I got up. This setup is playing ATSC HD very well, over the air or recorded. I've yet to test the optical audio out, or remote.

EDIT: The Kworld 115 doesn't provide audio on the NTSC SD Tuner. I've followed several guides and I'm still working on the issue. I may start a new thread requesting help on this issue. On the ATSC side of the tuner everything is working great, recording and playback with now issues. Also I ended up with one bad stick of ram so I'm running with 1GB until I get that replaced.

york2600

October 21st, 2007, 02:04 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200
RAM: 1Gb
Video Card: Geforce 5200FX
Sound Card: Soundblaster Live! Audigy
HD: 250GB PATA and 750GB SATA in LVM
Remote: Windows Media Center Remote (MCEUSB2) ( Does NOT Work ) / iMon Pad Remote (Did not attempt to configure as I don't use it, but this probably is interfering with the MS remote)
Tuners: None installed (2 sitting on a shelf)
Extra: LCD. iMON VFD. No options to setup the LCD

besmith2@hotmail.com

October 22nd, 2007, 09:48 AM

Dedicated BE
Hardware : Sony Viao RS ( BEER-TAP)
CPU: 2.4 Ghz HT
RAM: 1.0 Gb
Video Card: NVidia FX-5200
Sound Card: On-board
HD: None
Remote: None
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-150
Hauppauge PVR-350

Dedicated FE
Hardware : Mini-itx Epia 800 (COORS-LITE)
CPU: 800Mhz
RAM: 512MB
Video Card: On-Board
Sound Card: On-Board
HD: None
Remote: None
Tuners: None

Performance:
Backend works great, frontend works good.

JB2007

October 22nd, 2007, 07:46 PM

Backend/Frontend
CPU: Sempron 2800+
M/B: Basic Gigabyte
RAM: 512Mb RAM
HDD: 200Gb PATA
Sound: onboard
Video: Leadtek FX 5700 128Mb - TV out (to TV ;) )
Tuner 1: Happauge Nova-T DVB-T (Phillips)
Tuner 2&3: Dvico FusionHDTV Dual Digital 4 (new PCI version)
Remote: MCE Remote original Microsoft
Software: Mythbuntu 7.10 RC + Shepherd for Guide Data

Sydney Australia

Nova-T worked out of the box - well you need to download firmware but was too easy.
Dvico was a little more troublesome - although once the latest V4L was setup and firmware loaded - it just worked. Followed howto that everyone points to..
CPU barely hits 40% with all three cards recording... (20% is frontend process) tempted to try another Dual Digital 4 to take it to 5 tuners... and seperate the frontend from the backend + add a couple of more frontends. Have tried the Live CD frontend and it worked seamlessly. Plan to offload post processing to my Vmware machine as commercial flagging alone can chew 40% CPU...

Planned upgrade: another 1Gig of RAM + 500GB SATA drive + another dual tuner.

Mythbuntu Rocks... cheers! :guitar:

napsilan

October 22nd, 2007, 11:25 PM

Hardware
CPU: p4 3ghz
RAM: 512mb
Video Card: ATI x800xl, fglrx 42.3 (tv-out)
Sound Card: onboard ac97
HD: 320gb sata seagate, xfs
Remote: Gyration media center remote
Tuners: PCHDTV 5500
OS: Feisty Kubuntu + mythtv backend and frontend, dist-upgraded to gutsy (still uses openbox)

Performance

TV card worked right away after picking the right driver, and it actually shows up as 4 capture cards in "input connections" because it does both analog and digital using different drivers. Because the tv card doesn't have an onboard encoder, my cpu has to do it all. Using the kerneldeint and denoise3d playback filters and mpeg4 encoding and xvideo, watching an analog tv file while it is still recording is smooth now. Sound in recordings is pretty quiet, and I usually run the playback volume at max (external cord from capture card to onboard mic input, and I haven't messed with alsamixer). Digital SD plays back fine live. HD live playback does work when I turn off the deint and denoise filters. The remote was instantly recognized as a keyboard and mouse, but needed keymapping, and still has 4 buttons that aren't recognized at all (stuff like the dvd menu button). I needed to install fglrx to get TV-out working (did not try gatos). There's a small blank space at the bottom of my TV screen, probably due to video card driver issues.

Meph1st0

October 23rd, 2007, 03:58 PM

Just installed last night. Hardware config is as follows:

Dell Dimension 4600
CPU: Intell P4 2.4ghz
Mobo: standard mobo for a dimension 4600
RAM: 1GB PC2700 DDR333
Video Card: Nvidia GeForce 6200
Hard drives: 2x 320 GB (Haven't setup LVM yet but plan to thanks to the recent sticky)
Optical: DVD-RW DL Memorex and DVD+RW NEC
Tuner: pcHDTV HD-5500
Remote: Snapstream Firefly

All hardware installed without any problems. I had to use the lircrc and lircd.conf files from mythtv.org for the firefly. After that the remote worked fine.

I also had to setup ndiswrapper for my netgear wireless card. That was no problem either.

Mythbuntu is awesome.

RabidWolf

October 24th, 2007, 06:44 AM

Hardware-Backend/Frontend
__________________________

CPU: P4 2.6 HT @ 3.13
Mobo: Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
RAM: 2048 Kingston HyperX (PC3200 DDR)
Video Card: BFGTech 7800GS OC (256) AGP
Sound Card: SB Audigy 2 Platinum
HD: 500 GB Seagate
Remote: Hauppauge
Tuners: Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-150
Monitor: VS VX922 19" LCD @ 1280x1024

Performance
____________

I just wanted to say how smooth the install went, everything went fine, including setting up grub, thanx to the advanced option during the bootloader setup, I read through your install manual and step by step everything went perfect, taking notes on the kernel and root entries for grub before rebooting I was able to add it to my existing grub and Mythbuntu booted up fine without making me chroot in to fix my existing grub, leaving my multiboot setup intact.

Recording works great, love the commercial skipping, still need to figure out transferring stuff from an external ntfs removable hdd into the myth install as user, will search the forums.

So far everything is performing fine, but I only watched a little TV so far. The entire install was pleasant, polished, professional. Thanx again

djhedges

October 26th, 2007, 12:15 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon 2ghz
RAM: 512mb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA 440mx
Remote: pvr-150 black & gray
HD: 2 Harddrives in LVM fashion about 450gb
Tuners:
Hauppauge PVR-150

Performance
Tuner worked right out the gate.
Had to install the nvidia legacy drivers for my card to work
Used a different .lircrc file which worked much better

axelsvag

October 26th, 2007, 12:55 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ (2,4GHz) Socket AM2 65W Box
RAM: Corsair Value S. PC5300 DDR2 2048MB
Video Card: Nvidia 7600GS Silent 512 MB
Sound Card:Onboard
HD: Samsung SpinPoint T166 500GB SATA2 16MB 7200RPM
Remote: Windows MCE Phillips new model
Tuners: Hauppage 500 MCE
Motherboard: Asus M2A-VM HDMI
Chassi: Antec Fusion V2?

Performance
Installation worked perfect if you don´t use an old CRT television. Everything works besides... Remote is recognized sometimes and sometimes not. After install of xubuntu desktop videofiles can´t be played in xine, mplayer, vlc or totem. Audio OK but video just gives many shades of green colours. Same picture in all players. I have still not found a way to make my LCD/VFD on the chassi work. Old Feisty manuals don´t seems to work.

Zafrusteria

October 27th, 2007, 04:42 AM

Hardware
CPU: AMD X2 +6000 (64bit)
RAM: 4 Gb
Video Card: Nvidia 8600GTS 265mb
Motherboard: Azus Crosshair
Sound Card: on the MB
HD: 3 x SATA 256 Gb Matrox
Remote: none
Tuners: none

Hardware
CPU: Athlon 32 bit 3200
RAM: 2Gb
Video Card: Geforce 68000 128Mb
Sound Card: mother board
HD: 2 x IDE 160Gb Matrox and Seagate
Remote: none
Tuners: none

All working no problems.

alleycat69

October 28th, 2007, 06:29 AM

Hardware
CPU: XP2200
RAM: 1 Gb
Video Card: Nvidia 8500GTS 265mb
Motherboard: Gigabyte
Sound Card: AC97
HD: 20GIG , 80GIG, 40GIG IDE
Remote: Hauppage
Tuners: Nova T500, PVR 150
DVD rom - Gigabyte

All hardware is working.

CaptainPatent

October 28th, 2007, 12:41 PM

Hardware
Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1800+
RAM: 512 MB SDRAM
Video Card: ATI 9200
Sound Card:AC'97 Onboard
HD: 200GB Western Digital
Remote: ATI Remote Wonder
Tuner: ATI TV Wonder 200

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
TV has artifacts and will skip just a couple frames. TV is still watchable but I recommend against getting a TV Wonder 200 for a MythTV box

evongugg

October 30th, 2007, 11:06 AM

Hardware
CPU: Athlon XP 3000+
RAM: 1 Gb Kingston DDR-400
Video Card: Nvidia 5950
Motherboard: Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Sound Card: Soundblaster
HD: 120GIG IDE
DVD Rom: Sony
CD-R: Lite-On

No problems. Everything works.

freak1

October 31st, 2007, 10:07 AM

Hardware
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo T7300
RAM: 2 Gb Kingston DDR-400
Video Card: Intel GM965
Motherboard: AOpen MP965-DR
Sound Card: Intel 82801H
HD: 80GB SATA
DVD-R: Sony
IR: Fintek
Network: Intel 3945ABG

Problems:
1) IR doesn't work. Fix is located here but unable to commit changes: http://www.nabble.com/lirc_mceusb2.c-fintek-productid-typo-t4626593.htm (http://www.nabble.com/lirc_mceusb2.c-fintek-productid-typo-t4626593.html)l
2) Network asks for keyring password on bootup to allow wireless to work
3) Alsa does not detect the SPDIF (tested with mythvantage using OSS and works great)
4) Had to manually install libgl1-mesa-dri to get GL to work

Great start though!

superm1

October 31st, 2007, 10:36 AM

freak1

October 31st, 2007, 12:03 PM

Moved to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3677980#post3677980

JustInterested

November 5th, 2007, 12:57 AM

Using Mythbuntu Gutsy 7.10 AMD64

Hardware
CPU: AM2 4200+
RAM: 2G
Video Card: Onboard GeForce 6150
Sound Card: OnBoard
HD: SAMSUNG 320G
Remote: MCE USB2
Tuners: 2 x WinFast DTV 1000
Motherboard: ASUS M2NPV-VM

Performance
All h/w recognised and working - attached to PC LCD monitor at the moment... Need to do more reading/research to attach to LCD TV for best viewing experience (Panasonic TX-32LXD700A).

CCB0x45

November 6th, 2007, 02:50 AM

Just got mine completely working, everything runs perfect:

Running Mythbuntu Gutsy 7.10 i386
Dual Core Athlon 64 2.3ghz
Biostar NV770 Based HDMI Board MicroATX
2 Gigs of Ram
Hauppage PVR-150 (Both remote and blaster works!)
Mitsubishi WD 63628 63" HDTV running HDMI Port 1 720p(after a lot of config)
Antec Fusion Silver case(VFD works, I havnt gotten the volume knob to work yet but I think it will eventually)
Encore PCI Wireless-G card(Based on RTL 8185 chipset, only works with ndiswrapper)
Also runs torrentflux and mythweb perfectly, im working on getting mythstreamtv working.

Balki

November 6th, 2007, 06:29 AM

Hardware
Motherboard/CPU: VIA Epia SP13000 (1.3Ghz)
RAM: 512mb
Video Card: integrated on motherboard (CN400 chipset)
Sound Card:integrated on motherboard
HD:320gb
Remote:Hauppauge
Tuners:Hauppauge PVR250

Performance
Everything auto-detected fine. Performance is fine with auto-installed openchrome drivers.

e00

November 7th, 2007, 12:32 AM

Hardware
CPU: AMD X2 4800
RAM: 2Gb
Video Card: Nvidia 6100 integrated on mobo (Asus M2N-MX SE)
Sound Card: integrated hi-def
HD: 320Gb
Remote: Sunwave MCE USB
Tuners: Leadtek Winfast DTV1000

Performance
Works well. Only problems are:

Setting up a video resolution appropriate for a hi-def plasma connected via VGA
Getting the remote to work sufficiently that I won't need a keyboard (some functions work, some don't)
Finding EPG source for Australia

linuxlibrarian

November 12th, 2007, 11:54 AM

Hardware
Athlon 64 Socket Am2 2.4 ghz Orleans
Biostar TForce 7050pv M2 motherboard
1 gig Corsair DDR2 RAM
250 gb Western Digital SATA Hd
Hauppauge PVR150 MCE Vista Edition (the usb blaster/xmitter with the Black MCE remote. PVR 150 PCI card)
Nvidia (integrated on motherboard) 7050 graphics using nvidia-new drivers (proprietary)
Zonet wireless card
DVD drive
Antec case/380 psu

Performance:

Everything works great (finally).

Using with a DirecTV Philips DSX5250 STB and an RCA CRT Television. Channel changes, scheduled recording, everything works. Even remote.

Main issues that may or may not bother someone with this set up: Prebuffering pauses on the Hauppauge card causes a few fits and starts and jitters. Not bad, and not too annoying, mainly because our television isn't terribly good either. I suspect altering pci latency, increasing buffers, and possibly changing the channel frequencies might help this a bit. (I seem to do better with "us-cable" than "us-bcast" when using DirecTV, even though it technically is an antenna.)

A good, low budget set up though... esp. recommend if you don't have a top of the line TV and no plans to upgrade the TV in the near future.

old_salt

November 13th, 2007, 04:05 PM

Hardware - HP Dv9000z
CPU:AMD Turion64 x2
RAM:2Gb
Video Card:nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)
Sound Card:nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
HD:
NIC: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
Remote:
Tuners:

Other:
- Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
- FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
- Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
- Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 01)
- Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
- Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
- PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
- nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
- Matsushita Lightscribe DVD/RW-DL

Performance
Fair to midland.

Top Output on Gutsy install using 64bit Install--------------

Tasks: 128 total, 2 running, 126 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 77.0%id, 0.0%wa, 62.8%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1998036k total, 1008836k used, 989200k free, 82048k buffers
Swap: 4208988k total, 0k used, 4208988k free, 526892k cached

The Hardware interrupts are unusually high and USB 2.0 is inoperable and must remove the uhci in order to get USB ports operable at all.

stinger30au

November 13th, 2007, 04:34 PM

Hardware
CPU: Intel pentium4 3 Ghz Prescott
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: NVIDIA Geforce 2 64megram
HD: 2 x 40 gig ide and 1x80gig sata
Audio:Onboard

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
This includes my HP Deskjet 1120C colour printer and my Canon Lide20USB Scanner.

Had to install nvidia proprietary drivers by clicking on the "restrited drivers"tab when 7.10 started.it restarted and all is ok

Performance
Runs very sweet and silky smooth. Did a format and fresh install after backing up my data

billionmonkeys

November 15th, 2007, 12:45 AM

Hardware
CPU: amd64 3500
RAM: 1gb
Video Card: nvidia geforce 7100 GS, connected to NTSC tv via s-video, using nvidia binary driver
Sound Card: onboard nvidia audio
HD: sata
Remote: hauppauge
Tuners: hauppauge 350 and 250

Problems:
1. Cannot run install while system is connected to a TV. The resolution used by the installer is not tv-out compatible.
2. using the default mythbuntu theme, it is almost impossible to tell if a checkbox in the setup menu is selected or not on my tv.
3. commercial skip doesn't seem to work. I haven't investigated this problem yet.
4. picture quality issues when watching hockey games on this system. (noticible jumpiness when the camera pans across the ice). not sure if this is a playback issue or an issue with capturing. Tried messing with the quality settings to no avail so far.
5. hauppauge remote settings not good
6. overscan-related issue - if you narrow down the screen resolution on the config page (so all the menus fit on the screen) you will have problems with the underlying window manager putting the menu bar on top of the myth screen.
7. would be nice if the driver for the lcd device was installed/configured by default.
8. have both the hauppauge remote and a (useless) imon remote. i chose the hauppauge in the install screen but it automatically seems to support them both out of the box, I had to manually update the lirc config in /etc since /dev/lirc0 seemed to be allocated to the imon.

Limulf

November 15th, 2007, 11:10 AM

Hardware
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2x2GHz
RAM: 2 Gb DDRII SDRAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
Sound Card: integrated
HD: Toshiba MK2035GSS (link (http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=HardDrivesOpticalDrives/2.5-inchHardDiskDrives/MK2035GSS/MK2035GSSSpecifications))
Remote: RC115V(link (http://www.edio21.com/prod_rc115v.asp#))
Tuner: PRO-NETS DM100A (link (http://www.pro-nets.com/eng/product.php?mode=show&cid=109&pid=143))
Webcam: Bison 1.3 MegaPixel Digital Camera

Performance
Ubuntu 7.10 64bit. Installed without problems, and works quite well, except the following issues:
1) The famous load/unload cycles issue (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695/): after some testing, I found that $ sudo hdparm -B 192 /dev/sda solves it.
2) Webcam is not detected
3) Remote is not detected.
4) Tuner is not automatically detected. As in WindowsXP the drivers the vendor gave me configure this card as if it were an "AF9015" I have tried installing the kernel modules from here (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Afatech_AF9015). Problem is that, when I scan for stations, I find no one.
5) Suspend / hibernate do not work, computer shuts down instead.
6) Screen's brightness control performs weirdly, if I set brightness below 15% it goes back to full intensity instead.
7) Screen is blank during startup, until login box appears. This can be inconvenient for new Ubuntu users, who don't know that once in a while there will be a hard disk scan. As they don't see a thing, they could try to reboot the computer before it finishes it.

Thanks for your kind work.

budge31

November 16th, 2007, 09:15 AM

twkisner

November 18th, 2007, 02:31 AM

Hardware
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+
RAM: 1gb
Video Card: AGP nvidia 6200 component out
Sound Card: built in (I forget)
HD: Sanyo Vizon HDTV (4:3)
Remote: Firefly mini
Tuners: 3 Air2PC PCI ATSC cards (2 first rev., 1 Second rev.)

Performance

I have to manually install the drivers for my tuner cards (even though they are on the supported list on the install document). I had to go to Fiesty hardware install directions to get them working (-should someone move those over?)

I'm changing remotes to the Firefly mini. I'm going to have to manually key-map it, but when I do I intend on posing a guide. The one on the mythtv wiki for Fedora sounds silly to me.

*Update* I used Xmodmap to remap the keys. Right now use the "run on startup" feature to run a script that does it when the GUI loads, but does anyone know the proper way?

mdkendall

November 20th, 2007, 12:55 AM

Hardware
CPU: Intel Celeron D 430 (1.8GHz)
RAM: 1GB DDR2
HD: 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA
Motherboard: Shuttle SG31G2
Video Card: NVIDIA 7200GS, 256MB
Video Capture: Hauppauge PVR-150 MCE
IR Transceiver: SMK RXX6000 USB-attached transceiver (supplied with PVR-150), mceusb2
IR Remote: MCE remote, 1069-type (black) (supplied with PVR-150)

Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.

I am using the NVIDIA proprietary drivers. I installed the software and set the system up using an LCD monitor, then changed to a (standard definition, NTSC) TV attached to the S-video out of the video card. TV-out works fine regardless of the screen resolution, but it seems to me that things look best with the resolution set to 800x600.

Using mceusb2 the IR transceiver received the associated remote and controlled Myth with no further setup. After I added the definitions for my set-top box remote to lircd.conf and added a channel changer script I was also able to use the transmitter functions without problem.

Shuttle SG31G2 fans (PSU and CPU) are very quiet; I am very pleased.

Hard drive noise is distracting; it is actually fairly quiet but the constant ticking of the heads during recording is distracting. I am going to try some rubber isolation mounts.

Using the default Mythbuntu theme I bumped the font sizes up about 4pt each (from 12pt, 16pt and 25pt to 16pt, 20pt, 30pt IIRC) and the configuration screens are now much more readable on my SD TV. I agree with a previous comment that the 'checkbox' widget in this theme is terrible. The checked and unchecked state are an embossed or debossed square respectively (and its is not clear which way round that would be even if you could see it) which are distinguished by dark blue and slightly-darker blue shading. It is practically unusable on a SD TV.

I thought the Celeron might be underpowered and was prepared to have to change it, but actually it is doing fairly well. I see no recording or playback issues. Load average during recording is less than 0.1 (as would be expected given the hardware MPEG encoder) and during concurrent recording and playback it runs around 0.4.

roseway

November 20th, 2007, 08:10 AM

Hardware
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4000
RAM: 2 GB Kingston
Video Card: Onboard nVidia 6150
Sound Card: Onboard ADI 1986A
HD: Western Digital 5000AAKS SATA
Remote: Hauppauge Nova-T
Tuner: Hauppauge Nova-T PCI (conexant version)

Performance
Everything worked correctly out of the box except the remote control. I set up the RC using the guide at http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Remote_control plus extra information at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=183545&highlight=nova

superm1

November 20th, 2007, 10:53 AM

roseway

November 20th, 2007, 11:02 AM

Will do (when I've found out how to :) )

superm1

November 20th, 2007, 11:04 AM

Will do (when I've found out how to :) )
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+filebug

roseway

November 20th, 2007, 11:29 AM

Thanks. I see that there's already a bug report dealing with this, so I've simply subscribed to it and added a comment.

Nikas

November 21st, 2007, 10:28 AM

Hardware
CPU: AMD64 3200+, 2200 Ghz
RAM: 1.0 gb ram
Video Card: cheap NVIDIA-card.
Remote: None
HD: 40 gb sys disk. 250 gb for recordings and live tv.
Tuners:
2 x Hauppauge WinTV Nova T-500 = 4 dvb-t tuners total.
Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
Added latest firmware and updated the v4l-dvb-drivers.
Got "I2C read error" with IR-cable connected but I'm using the computer as server only so i dont need to have the ir-cable connected.

spinlock99

November 23rd, 2007, 11:49 AM

Hardware
CPU:
RAM:
Video Card:
Sound Card:
HD:
Remote:
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV (using bt878, bttv, and tuner linux modules)

Performance:Using a standard Mythbuntu install I have been able to watch tv using xawtv with no recompiling of kernel modules. It just worked out of the box!!! I have gotten MythTV to play TV using the V4L Capture Card and not the MPEG2 as it says in the manual.

The Odometer

November 24th, 2007, 01:31 PM

Hardware
CPU:AMD Athon XP 2200+
RAM:512 MB DDR
Video Card: Chaintech Geforce FX 5200 128 MB
Sound Card:Onboard Nforce2
HD:250 GB
Remote:MCE Remote
Tuners:Hauppauge Win-TV PVR 150 MCE

Performance:
Worked right out of the box. Had a few problems with TV Out-but they were fixed easily. Thanks for a great distro!

kameleon25

November 24th, 2007, 04:38 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD 64 4600+ x2 65W
RAM: 1.0 GB (512x2) A-data ADQVE1908K PC6400 Ram
Video Card: Onboard ATI Xpress 1250 connected via HDMI
Remote: Streamzap pc remote
HD: 160GB SATA
Tuners: Firewire to Scientific Atlanta 8300HD DVR Comcast box
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
Performance: Mostly worked out of the box. Much easier to deal with than the manual mythtv install I had previously.

Had to install Ubuntu 7.10 from cd first then install the mythbuntu control center. My hardware had issues with booting into the graphical interface using the mythbuntu 7.10 disk. Got it all installed and then had issues with the ATI Xpress1250 chipset to display 1080p properly on my Sharp Aquos 42" LCD. Had to remove the restricted fglrx driver and then reboot the pc with the sharp turned on and tuned into the HDMI port. Worked like a charm. I previously had this running on ubuntu 7.04 but something happened and it all crashed. Found mythbuntu and decided to install that.
The only issues that remain is my streamzap remote and the firewire to the comcast box. The streamzap actually "works" as far as selecting and navigating the menus. But it does not work for manipulating the video stream. The firewire is an issue in itself. I have not really delved into that fully yet but if anyone has any pointers they are appreciated.

pasta514

November 25th, 2007, 03:37 AM

BACKEND
Hardware
CPU: AMD BE-2300 45W
Motherboard: Abit AN52
RAM: 2x2GB Crucial
Video Card: ATI Radeon X600
Sound Card: n/a
HD: 1x160GB Maxtor & 1x500GB Maxtor
Remote: n/a
Tuners: ATI HDTV Wonder

Performance
Had to download the DVB firmware for the HDTV card.
Want to use this as a samba server as well, so was hoping to mirror the 160GB disk with 160GB partition on the other disk with RAID/LVM, then use the remaining disk space in non-RAID. So far no luck. Maybe the samba server will sit on another machine.

FRONTEND
Hardware
CPU: AMD AthlonX2 6000+
Motherboard: Abit AN-M2HD nForce 630a
RAM: 2x2GB Crucial
Video Card: GeForce 7050PV
Sound Card: Realtek? MPC67/ALC883 7.1 HD Audio
HD: 160GB Maxtor
Remote: WinMCE USB
Tuners: n/a

Performance
connected to Sharp Aquous through HDMI. No Audio through HDMI; known nvidia driver issue. Have not had time to check out other audio options yet.
Significant overscan on the screen. Also a driver issue. Overscan should be OK for media, but problematic for running a linux desktop. Have tried to debug without success.

e00

November 27th, 2007, 05:48 AM

Did you get your epg working?

I use Shepherd, and it hasn't missed a beat since I set it up.

http://svn.whuffy.com/index.fcgi/wiki

Tried to set up Shepherd. Seemed to set up ok, except for waiting 20 minutes or so for it to download data (over cable!). But it didn't properly update the guide database so recording via EPG didn't work at all.

Don't really have time to debug it, so disabled it. Recording works fine using manual record or the station's transmitted guide.

williammanda

November 27th, 2007, 08:40 PM

Hardware
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 6400
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: Nvidia 7300 le 512 MB ram PCIe
Sound Card:: Onboard sound - ADI AD1986A
HD: 250 GB
Remote: Snapstream Firefly RF
Tuners: pcHDTV HD-5500 & Dvico FusionHDTV5 Gold Updated 1/5/08
Monitor: Westinghouse W4207 42"

Performance
Everything worked correctly out of the box except the Nvidia restricted drivers had to be updated to ver 169.04. I use Xine outside of mythtv. Update 1/5/08 Using the Nvidia driver 169.07.

Hardware
CPU: AMD Dual Core 4200
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: Nvidia 7300 gt 512 MB ram PCIe
Sound Card: Onboard sound - ADI AD1986A
HD: 250 GB
Remote: Snapstream Firefly RF
Tuners: Dvico FusionHDTV5 Express (PCIE version) Updated 1/5/08 I had to get the latest linuxtv drivers to use the pcie card since kernel 2.6.22.14 doesn't support it.
Monitor: LG 42LC7D 42"

Performance
Everything worked correctly out of the box except the Nvidia restricted drivers had to be updated to ver 169.04. I use Xine outside of mythtv. Update 1/5/08 Using the Nvidia driver 169.07.

Hardware
CPU: Intel P4 HT 3 Ghz
RAM: 1 GB
Video Card: ATI X1650t 512 MB ram AGP
Sound Card: Onboard sound - AC 97
HD: 160 GB
Remote: none
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-150
Monitor: Viewsonic VA520 Analog 15"

Performance
Enable restricted drivers for the ATI video card. Mythtv playback for SDTV is ok. Digital tv is choppy. Xine media playback of SDTV is ok but digital playback gives a message " the amount of dropped frames is to high". I am using the xshm driver since xv will not work with the ATI card. Any ideas?
Update 12/23/07
I've since removed the ATI card and used the onboard video Intel 82865G and all video works fine even HD. Anyone want an ATI card

umggc

November 29th, 2007, 05:18 PM

Combined Front/Back End:

CPU: AMD Turion ML-30 (socket 754)
MB: MSI K8MM3-V (VIA K8M800 VT8237R)
RAM: 1 GB DDR 400
GPU: GeForce 6200 128 MB

Tried 2 tuners:

Leadtek Winfast TV2000/XP Expert: works. Set as software v4l card, using mpeg4 in recording profile, adjusted ALSA setting to use aux audio;

ADS PTV 305 (same as KWorld MCE-TV 200): not working. Had to manually type in device name in hardware encoder card setup to recognize, channel scan worked, live TV went black screen than nothing. Probably because IVTV driver does not support blackbird cards.

gnickm

November 29th, 2007, 10:44 PM

CPU: VIA C3/EDEN
MB: VIA EPIA-M10000 Fanless
RAM: 512MB DDR
GPU: Integrated VIA CastleRock AGP w/TV out

Used as a video playing front-end, so no tuners. Absolutely no problems installing or running, Mythbuntu 7.10 "just worked" right off CD.

spalVl

December 9th, 2007, 09:03 PM

CPU: Athlon XP1800
MB: SOLTEK SL-75DRV5 Socket A (Socket 462) VIA KT333 ATX AMD
RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 266 (PC 2100)
HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 6Y080L0 80GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive
GPU: nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 AGP (S-Video out)
Sound 1: Integraded VIA Technologies, AC97 Audio Controller (Disabled)
Sound 2: Chaintech AV-710 (Optical out)
PS: Generic 300w PS
CD: CDRW 24X10X40|SONY CRX175
Tuner: Leadtek Winfast TV2000XP Deluxe tuner NTSC

Had to connect it to a VGA monitor to get installed. After that setup restricted Nvidia driver and hooked to TV.
Used custom modeline migrated from Knoppmyth with video settings for TV.

Ran into the VNC CD needs to be inserted to enable problem.

Ran into the MythWeb password problem resolved with post from this forum.

Audio: Had to change to /dev/adsp in Setup>General and enable AC3/DTS to SPDIF.
Mplayer needed /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf audio section modified with audio options.

ac=hwac3,hwdts,
ao=oss:/dev/adsp

Been unable to get the remote working appended to this post.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=610426

Great distro, REALLY like Mythbuntu Control Centre and the lightness of XFCE, plus is easy to switch to Mythbuntu SVN repository.

Brando569

December 10th, 2007, 10:18 PM

Hardware
CPU:AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200
RAM: 2x512mb Kingston HyperX DDR400
Video Card:Nvidia 7600GT and/or 8600GTS OC
Sound Card:onboard nvidia (realtek?)
HD:WD 5000KS 500GB Sata II 16mb cache

Performance
kubuntu runs great on my system, well with the exception of compiz-fusion screwing up randomly (no borders, freezing). the only problem that i have is when i have my 8600GTS in it doesnt display the kubuntu splash screen.

milhouse

December 17th, 2007, 03:19 PM

Hardware

CPU: Athlon 64 3000+
MB: ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe
RAM: Kingston HyperX 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM
HDD: Seagate 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive
GPU: nVidia GeForceFX 6600 AGP (S-Video out)
Sound: Integraded VIA Technologies, AC97 Audio Controller
Tuner: DViCO Fusion HDTV 5 RT Gold

Performance

Installed 7.1 w/o issue. Tuner card recognized and configured both analog and digital tuners easily. Installed nVidia restricted drivers using the restricted drivers manager. Display on both my 20" LCD monitor during setup and 4:3 CRT TV via s-video for use was flawless.

Setup suffers from the "pink screen of death" and will upgrade nVidia drivers to solve this.

Digital tuner works fine.

The analog tuner on the FusionHDTV 5 has audio problems. There is some very loud static for 2 or 3 seconds then an audio bitrate mismatch when you switch from a digital to analog station. Changing again to another analog station usually fixes the issue. Not a workable solution for unattended recording. Fixes may be out there, I just didn't need the analog tuner so stopped trying.

voctikal

December 22nd, 2007, 03:15 PM

Hardware

Case nMEDIAPC HTPC 300BA
Mobo BIOSTAR TForce TF7050-M2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
CPU AMD Athlon 64 LE-1600 2.2GHz Socket AM2 45W Single-Core
PSU COOLER MASTER eXtreme RP-500-PCAR ATX
RAM A-DATA 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800
Game Controller Logitech 963326-0403 Cordless RumblePad 2 USB
Remote Streamzap Remote
HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM SATA
Optical Sony NEC Black 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW

Almost forgot the 52 inch big screen

dougsnell

December 23rd, 2007, 09:03 AM

Hardware - Wal-Mart Everex TC2502 (with new HD)

CPU: 1.5 GHz VIA C7-D
RAM: 512 Mb DDR2
Video Card: (not used) on-board VIA UniChrome Pro
Sound Card: (not used) on-board
HD: 250 Gb (WD, I think)
Remote: Hauppage 350 (4 color buttons on bottom)
Tuners: Hauppage 500 and Hauppage 350

Performance

Runs Mythbuntu. Virtually no overhead on processor, very low-watt consumption. Had problems getting everything working with the 350 TV-out, but the new Gutsy howto was perfect.

... and it works a lot better than it did under Windows with BeyondTV :)

JeepFreak

December 24th, 2007, 03:53 PM

Hardware
CPU: Intel Pentium D 925 3 GHz Dual Core
Motherboard: Intel DG965WH Media Series
RAM: 1GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2 DIMM 240-pin 800MHz Non-ECC
Video Card: ASUS EN7300LE/HTD/128M GeForce 7300LE Supporting to 512MB(128MB on BoarD) 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16
Sound Card: On Board
HD: Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Remote: Soundgraph iMon Pad
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500
Case: Silverstone GD01MX

Performance
I just installed Mythbuntu 7.10 and the system works remarkably well right out of the box. The remote is flakey and needs configuring. The card readers on the front of the case do not work (actually... I only know that they do not autodetect media). And, of course, the iMon LCD does not work.

Overall... I am very impressed with Mythbuntu!! I can't believe I've been putting this project off for almost a year!

Thanks,
Billy

ozybushwalker

December 28th, 2007, 04:10 AM

Hardware
CPU: Via C3 1GHz on GA-PCV2 Mini ITX mother board
RAM: 256MB
Video Card: On board in VIA CLE-266 Chipset
Sound Card: AC97 On board in VIA CLE-266 Chipset
HD: Seagate 80GB PATA
Remote: included with Tuner
Tuners: Leadtek Winfast DTV1000 T

Performance
The tuner has DVB (Digital) facilities with composite video input. I haven't tried the remote or the composite video input yet. The digital tuner works well but it took me a while to figure out how to configure it correctly. Perhaps if I had read the installation manual it might have been a bit clearer.

I tried to get a suitable EPG but there was no option for Australia in the setup script. I found the shepherd EPG but ran into trouble getting it going because there were insufficient perl modules. I tried to follow the shepherd installation procedure at http://svn.whuffy.com/index.fcgi/wiki/Installation
but it reported a missing perl module and I haven't yet tried to rectify that.

Overall, I'm very pleased with what I have seen so far. Thanks Mythbuntu team.

My initial euphoria has soured with experience. Because I saw some swapping and jerky video I upgraded the memory to 512MB but that didn't fix the jerky video problem. After investigation (described in my bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mythbuntu/+bug/179634
I got better performance by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf and adding the line VideoRam 16384 to the device section.

AlecJ

January 11th, 2008, 10:08 AM

Hardware MSI K9N6GM
CPU: Amd 64 x2 4400
RAM: 1Gb
Video Card: Nvidia FX 7300 GS
Sound Card: on board Nvidia ALC883 7.1 (not working as 7.1 yet)
HD:Maxtor 160Gb
Remote: Nova-T 500 grey snow board type
Tuners: Kworld expert (works from the box (crap remote))
Nova-T500 (have to follow http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI
for Mythbuntu to find it.

Performance
Works Great!
Still trying to get 7.1 working

ian dobson

January 17th, 2008, 01:42 PM

Backend:-

Intel Q6600
2Gb ram
RAID 5 array (4x500Gb SATA)
1Gbit network
PVR 150 analog tuner
Running 7.10

Frontend
Intel C2D 2140
Gigabyte G945 motherboard
512Mb ram
40Gb 21/2 harddisk
Nvidia G7300 graphic card
SABA TV (Now this feels strange in a PC spec)
PVR 150 remote control + homebrew IR input (see 5)
TV running off S-VIDEO port as PAL-B at 1024/768 (Need to change this sometime).
Running 7.10/Mythbuntu

Problems:-
1) The backend doesn't have an X server so getting myth-setup working took abit of work.
2) The AL1 network card has a problem with > 4Gb ram so I only have 2Gb at the moment
3) The PVR 150 recordings where far too quiet until I increased the recording volume in MythTV
4) The TV out isn't 100% OK. Bright colours are abit "smudgy". I think that the luminance signal is abit too high. I'll try making a new cable sometime.
5) Mythbuntu doesn't support "home brew" adapters from the setup screen, I had to say I had a PVR 150 remote then manually reconfigure LIRC to use the Serial driver and disable the serial port in the Kernel using setserial.

The WAF (Women acceptance Factor) is quite good. My wife has started using MythTV even though I'm still fixing afew hardware bugs and the system isn't really "on-line". Mythweb makes everything much easier. I have a normal harddisk recorder and it's a pig to work with (User interface is slow /unresponsive, EPG doesn't always work)

Regards
Ian Dobson

Mrbbad

January 20th, 2008, 11:53 PM

Hardware
Motherboard: BIOSTAR TForce TF7050-M2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
RAM: 1Gig (4 sticks of 256MB RAM)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor
Network: GIGABYTE GN-WP01GS PCI Wireless Adapter
TV Tuner: SABRENT TV Tuner / Video Capture / MPEG Recording PCI Card with Remote Control TV-PCIRC PCI Interface
HD: 40Gig Barracuda
Remote: TSHA IR01 (Example here (http://www.directron.com/hair01sv.html); didn't buy it from them, that is just a view of the remote.)

Comments
Sound & video are on the motherboard. Ran sound out of TV Tuner to Motherboard and then to the TV. Hard-coded (how annoying) the system so Mythbuntu would stop asking me for the wireless password on boot to access the Internet.

Problems
Had to use 'low graphics mode' during install because the on-board video was not supported. Downloaded, installed, compiled (didn't do this part myself, worked on this with a friend) appropriate NVIDIA drivers (annoying).

I *do not* recommend the motherboard I got currently (though it is AWESOME!) for those building their own systems -- not until the on board video card is supported by the installer for sure.

The remote that came with the TV Tuner did not work, bought the above listed one instead and it worked perfectly.

Some stations have this green fuzzy line at the bottom -- it's easy to ignore since the line is quite small; but we couldn't find a way to remove it.

40GIGs of space is no fun, will have to add another HD in the future.

Current Status
After a 24 hour marathon, somehow, someway, we got it working, it is now recording and playing standard definition cable TV very well.

If for some reason anyone has a question about any of that, please PM me.

Chuckels550

January 30th, 2008, 01:47 PM

Hardware
CPU - Slot 939, AMD Athlon64 3500+
RAM - Corsair 4x512 GB DDR, 400 MHz FSB, CAS 2.5, TWINX Value
Mobo - MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (MS-7025)
Hard drives - ATA 133 Maxtor 250 GB 16 MB Buffer and SATA II Western Digital 750 GB 16 MB Buffer
DVD Burner - LG GSA-H10A 16x Super Multi DVDRW/CDRW
Soundcard - Creative Labs Soundblaster Audigy X-Gamer - used for TV-Out
Graphics - Asus Nvidia N7600GS, TV-Out DVI, 256 MB DDR, AGP 8x Silent (fanless) - I use the graphics card TV-Out
Wireless NIC - Dlink DWL-G520 High Speed 2.4GHz (802.11g) Wireless PCI Adapter, Rev B
TV Tuners - Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350, model 990 (NTSC tuner) and Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150, model 1045 (NTSC tuner) - both used only for capture, but I use the WinTV PVR 350 remote with LIRC.
Keyboard/Mouse - Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 6000
Display - Sharp 32" LCD TV set to Digital A/V (no monitor)

Cabling the TV Tuner, Sound Card and TV
Additional cables required:

Coaxial Cable Splitter and coaxial cable for connections to LCD TV, WinPVR 350 TV Tuner, WinPVR 150 TV Tuner
Audio patch cable, short as possible, (for connection between the TV tuner card and sound card)
DVI cable (for connection between the LCD TV and the Graphics Card
Audio cable with small headphone jack (for connection between the soundcard and the LCD TV

Note: The WinPVR 150 does not need to be connected to anything other than the cable TV input.

Connect one cable TV coaxial cable to the Hauppauge WinPVR 350 connector and one to the Hauppauge WinPVR 150 connector on the back panel. The top coaxial connection on both TV tuners is for cable FM, which I don’t use.
Connect the Hauppauge IR receiver to the WinTV PVR 350 back panel IR receiver connection.
Using a audio cable with the small headphone jacks, connect the Audio Line Out on the sound card to the LCD TV audio input for the DVI connection.

Comments:
Everything listed works and works well for me at 720p
I configure storage using LVM2.
I had problems with Network Manager, with getting the cabling to the correct audio out jack on the soundcard and with configuring alsamixer.

Network Manager has never worked well for me and I would love to see it disappear from Ubuntu releases. When it broke this time, I uninstalled it and installed/configured Wicd instead. Wicd has no problems with maintaining static IPs, which is a requirement for MythTV and has proven very reliable as well as easy to set up.
I found it confusing to decide where the correct line-out jack was for my soundcard, but once I realized that the Analog/Digital line out was used for the subwoofer in a 5.1 set-up I was able to find the correct line-out to use.
Setting up alsamixer was by guess and by gosh. For my soundcard, if the Analog/Digital line out Jack is on, nothing works. The settings in MythTV were ALSA: default and default.

stdPikachu

January 31st, 2008, 09:09 AM

For my soundcard, if the Analog/Digital line out Jack is on, nothing works. The settings in MythTV were ALSA: default and default.

IIRC this is the same for every Audigy. In addition, if they're anything like mine you won't be able to mute the master or PCM channels either. I filed a bug report with ALSA about this ages ago but still don't think it's been incorporated upstream.

kreegor

February 7th, 2008, 08:09 PM

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte P31-S3G
CPU: C2D E2160 (stock)
RAM: 1 Gig DDR2 667 (generic)
Video Card: POV 256MB nVidia 8400GS
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 160Gig Western Digital
Remote: Dvico FusionRemote MCE
Tuners: DVICO (Ultraview) Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus

Problems

Some remote buttons were not configured properly. Simple change in the lircrc file.
Sound was very quite. Had to install Alsamixergui to boost the sound
Accessing a Samba share crashes my Windows machine. No idea why just yet :)

Performance
Installation was simple, tuner card worked out of the box and remote worked from install. This machine has no trouble displaying high quality video. Recording quality is great and playback is really smooth.

Overall, I am more than happy with it!

solitaire

February 7th, 2008, 08:28 PM

Hardware
Motherboard: Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop
CPU: P4m 2Ghz (stock)
RAM: 512Mb (generic)
Video Card: nVidia GeForce4 440 m
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: 27Gb Western Digital
OS: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

Performance
Generaly Good. Issues with faulty Heatsink on Graphics overheating the unit (Not an OS Issue).

Mythstory

February 8th, 2008, 12:42 PM

Hardware
CPU: Intel 6550
RAM: 2.0 gb ram
Video Card: on mb Gigabyte G33 intel Graphics
Remote: Winfast DTV 1000 T bundle
HD: 500 gb SATA Seagate hard drive
Tuners:
2 X Winfast DTV 1000 T bundle
Performance
All hardware properly detected and functional.
But HD Recording of 2 chanels at once works
But HD live and playback does not work on Myth

Winfast PVR2 Software on WinXP does work for watching,Playing
and recoding of HD TV on same box..But is less stable..Is faster
changing channels. Will check on HD Threads

DuncanG

February 8th, 2008, 06:45 PM

Hardware
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H
CPU: AMD BE-2350, Scythe Mini Ninja cooler, 1 GB RAM
Video Card: Onboard ATI X1250
Sound Card: Onboard Realtec
HDD: Samsung 1TB HD103UJ
Tuner: AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI A16D
Case: Antec NSK2480B

Performance
Not working yet. Mythbuntu and graphic install of Ubuntu fail due to onboard graphics, so text install and manual MythTV install required. Playback via MythTV jerky, so working on drivers next.

Specific problems
Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H: SATA connectors are off the edge of the board, so does not fit in MicroATX case without cutting metalwork. Problems with onboard graphics not yet resolved, but enough to prevent straightforward install.
Samsung 1TB HD103UJ: Slow on cold start and not recognised by BIOS, so reboot always required.
AVerMedia AVerTV Hybrid+FM PCI A16D: Not supported out of the box (Linux), but install instructions http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/AVerMedia_AverTV_Hybrid_FM_PCI_A16D may be working, cannot tell until playback resolved.
Antec NSK2480B: Power connector for two close SATA devices - so cannot power both HDD and DVD without extra lead, as they are several inches apart. Otherwise an excellent case.

rmoore2112

February 10th, 2008, 10:51 AM

Hardware

This hardware is a great value for a quiet frontend and a powerful backend. Please pay attention to the installation notes, especially the NVIDIA drivers section (it will save you from re-installing the whole shebang!).
The tuners were supported out of the box !!

Role MythTV Frontend and Backend
Motherboard EVGA e-7150/630i Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 630i, Socket 775, MicroATX
Case Antec NSK 2480
CPU:Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
CPU FAN ZEROtherm CPU Cooler CF900 775
RAM: 2 GB Corsair TWINX 2048MB PC6400 DDR2 800MHz (2x1024)
Video Card: Integrated nVIDIA e-7150
Sound Card: Integrated
HD: WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G
CVD/CD LITE-ON 20x DVDRW SATA
Remote: Microsoft MCE Remote with IR reciever / blaster (version2)
Tuners: HDHomeRun, Hauppage WinTV PVR-150

Installation Notes

Install Mythbuntu 7.10 in SAFE Mode - DO NOT use the restricted drivers for the NVIDIA card - use generic VESA driver during the install.
Install the complete system before performing the configuration steps below.

e-7150 Configuration

Download the 169.04 beta video drivers (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_169.04.html) from NVIDIA.

When you install the driver, the installer will compile a version for your Kernel. To do this, you will need to install the kenrnel source & headers, gcc and build-essentials.

After the NVIDIA drivers are installed run
nvidia-xconfig

Onboard Sound Configuration

install linux-backport-modules which includes the hda_intel module.
You will have to add the backports repository through synaptic-package-manager

deb http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse Deb-src-http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy backports main restricted universe multiverse

sudo apt-get install linux-backport-modules

If you are going to use the digital output on the back of the motherboard, you will have to enable it through the ALSA mixer.

Performance
The system performs great!!. I was able to rip a dvd, and watch recorded HD content on two different front ends while capturing from the two HDHomeRun tuners.

david.birch

February 11th, 2008, 09:48 PM

Setup: Frontend/Backend 7.10

CPU: Core Duo E6600 - dual 2.4GHz
RAM: 2GB
MB: Asus P5B-VM
Video: XFX nVidia 7300GS
Sound: onboard Intel HD (ICH8)

Tuner 1: Hauppauge Nova-T-500
Tuner 2: Leadtek DTV1000T

Functions well (great playback on 1080i signals in Aus with low cpu usage - < 5%) aside from a current problem with 0.20.2 frontend pausing between program changes on the same channel.
Remote on Hauppauge works, haven't testing on the leadtek but it's input is detected so i assume it should work. AC3 Pass thru wouldn't work for me in myth but would in mplayer & vlc, not sure what the prob is - assume it is configuration error.
Only other issue is tuners getting picked up in random order by kernel at boot - there is no way to differentiate between the hauppauge tuners to write a udev rule, so i had to write a script to grep dmesg & update the cardinput table...

incubi

February 12th, 2008, 03:00 PM

Hardware
Mother board: Asus A7N8x-x
Chipset: Nvidia nforce 2
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+
RAM: 1G Kingston
Video Card: Nvidia 5200 FX
Display: Syntax Olevia 542i 42" LCD HDTV using VGA input
Sound Card: SB Live
HD: 50G WD IDE, and 2 WD 250G IDE
Remote: Newer pvr-350 /w colored buttons at bottom
Tuners: PVR-350

Performance
My first try was with mythdora and it installed but had choppy video. My system worked well on first install with mythbuntu 7.10! All hardware was detected and remote worked default. PVR-350 TV Out worked with a mod but not worth the work because the video was not much better then VGA. Needed to format and mount the two 205G drives then point myth to them.

Overall good performance!
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txcrackers

February 17th, 2008, 06:40 PM

Setup: Backend/Frontend

Hardware
CPU: AMD XP 2100
RAM: 1Gb
Video Card: PNY NVidia GeForce 6200 256mb
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Live!
HD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250820A 250GB
Remote: eDATA DEC-200B (Toshiba IR01)
Tuners: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 MCE 274

Performance
Worked out-of-the-box. The only issue I had was figuring out the correct frequency table to use.

r_endymion

February 18th, 2008, 11:08 PM

Hardware
CPU: Pentium D 3.2
RAM: 2 gigs
Video Card: GeForce 6600
Sound Card: Onboard Intel HDA (Realtek ALC880) using SPDIF
HD:200GB Seagate SATA
Remote:
Tuners: Leadtek Winfast TV Expert 2000 XP

Performance
Card detected fine, audio was a PITA to get configured. ALSA will not load on boot, will not load until I first play an audio file. I'm sure its a config problem, only my first week using Linux.

Caps18

February 20th, 2008, 08:59 PM

Hardware Working With No Problems:
PNY GeForce 6200 AGP (8x running on 4x AGP motherboard)- Mythbuntu detected it and downloaded the nvidia drivers much better than Fedora

Hardware With Some Problems, but now setup 100%

Hardware With Some Problems, but still needs fixed

Hardware that doesn't work
Rosewill PCMCIA To PCI adapter

(Doesn't work in Fedora either, or at least I wasn't able to get it to work and it caused problems during boot-up when installed)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166013

I'll come back and update this again later.

lytke

February 21st, 2008, 06:09 AM

Hardware
CPU: C7 on VIA EX10000EG
RAM: 1GB
Video Card: onboard cx700m2
Sound Card: onboard VIA VT1708A
HD: 80GB PATA
Remote: Hauppauge
Tuners: Hauppauge nova-t 500

Performance
Install okay, tuner discovered and working
video driver (vesa) only allows 768x1024, not able to customize
- does show a TV picture -very slow - unusable
- is it possible to include driver from VIA ? (available on viaarena for 7.10 and other older versions)

rddone

February 25th, 2008, 09:26 PM

Hardware
CPU: AMD XP 2400+ in old MB (running at 2000, since MB cant detect 2400)
RAM: 1 GB RAM
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 256 MB using composite video out -> Channel modulator
HDD1: 30 GB PATA using a bit over 1GB.
Recordings played from file server over NFS mount.
Tuners: None (recording is done on other machine)
Remote: Tira-2 USB using Satellite 1142 on JP1 universal remote

Performance:
CPU time of less than 20% while playing 640x480 mpgs.
Video quality is awesome even on 52" LCD through modulator->demodulator combo fed from composite video output.
Had to force video mode for install even with monitor capable of 1280x1024.
All hardware properly detected.
Disabled all Power saving features of monitor in xorg.conf since TV out not properly restored after blanking
Tira USB remote was a huge learning curve, even after having to manually setup PVR-150 remote on Mythbuntu 7.04.

Everything works perfectly now, and could replicate setup from scratch in a couple hours.

tr333

February 29th, 2008, 08:17 PM

Hardware
Case: Antec NSK2480
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L
HDD: 120GB IDE
GPU: nVidia 8600GT
WiFi: D-Link DWL-G510 (rt61 chipset)
CPU: Intel E2160 1.8GHz C2D
RAM: 2GB
Audio: Onboard Intel HDA
Optical Drive: ASUS Lightscribe 20x DVD-R.

Performance
Case looks good sitting next to a TV, and is nice and quiet.
Ethernet and WiFi not working out of the box on Mythbuntu 7.10. Ethernet now working after removing r8169 driver and compiling and installing r8168 driver (using instructions found on ubuntuforums). WiFi still not connecting to WPA2-AES network even after compiling rt61 legacy driver from serialmonkey. This should hopefully improve in 8.04 with the rt2x00 driver in the 2.6.24 kernel. Haven't yet tested the 8600GT on S-VIDEO output.

jakev383

March 8th, 2008, 07:52 AM

Hardware

CPU: Intel P4 2.4Ghs Celeron
RAM: 1G
Video Card: Onboard Intel based
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: Seagate 250G
Remote: N/A
Tuners: PVR 150 and a PVR-500

Performance
Works great. I can use all 3 cards at the same time. Do date I've recorded on 2, and watched liveTV on the last. The PVR150 does get a "sharper" image than the PVR500, so I have it +1 in priority for recordings. This is my backend, and is currently running MythDora4. Only time I've ever noticed a hiccup was while recording a show, comm-flagging another show, the wife was watching a show on one of the front ends, and I was re-encoding some shows to burn to DVD at the same time. It would cause the front end to stutter every once in a while.

CPU: Intel P4 2.4G
RAM: 2G of DDR2
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 (restricted drivers)
Sound Card: On board
HD: 500G Seagate
Remote: N/A
Tuners: N/A

Performance
Works great, except for the NVIDIA pink screen bug. I use this machine to edit my shows before exporting to DVD on the backend. This is a Ubuntu 7.10 machine with the Myth components installed.

CPU: Via MII 10000 (1Ghz)
RAM: 512M
Video Card: OpenChrome (onboard)
Sound Card: (onboard)
HD: 10G Toshiba (laptop drive)
Remote: PVR150 remote using a home-built serial adapter
Tuners: N/A

Performance
Works great as well. I have not tried PIP since it's connected to a 20" TV in my bedroom, but we watch our shows and movies on this machine without problems. I do turn it off at night since the CPU fan is loud. Slim DVD drive also works great, and I use it to rip DVDs to the NFS share. This machine runs MythBuntu 7.10. I have another frontend with exactly the same specs, except for the HD which is a 20G Seagate 2.5" drive.

miket3115

March 9th, 2008, 07:52 AM

Hardware:

CPU - Intel Dual Core @ 2.66Ghz
Mother Board - Intel D945GTP
Ram - 3 gig's
Video card - ATI Radeon Sapphire HD 2400 Pro
sound - Onboard
HD - 250 gig Western Dig.
Cams - Microsoft life cam 3000 and a Logitec Quick Cam
Lan - Onboard
Wireless - DLink DWL510
Printer - Lexmark X1195

Performance:
System works well running Gusty 7.1, took me a little while to get my printer to work. It prints fine now, although, the built in scanner and photo copier functions are a no go as of yet.

I had Gusty installed on this system for about two weeks when I installed the Graphics card and to my dismay when I booted for the first time the system crashed. It did boot on the second try but only to a command prompt which asked me to login. No GUI at all.

I reinstalled Gusty and it seemed to work, however, on further inspection I discovered the system was using a Generic VESA Driver and not the Radeon driver. The driver works well and I've not taken the time to fiddle with it to find a compatible ATI drive.

I down graded my web cam from the Microsoft to a Logitech as i couldn't get the Microsoft webcam to function.

To date I haven't been able to get a Mic to work on this system, I believe it has something to do with the Intel chipset but not sure on that.

That being said I am still very impressed with Ubuntu.

MIke
Just say no to Microsoft!;-)

myth-karl

March 9th, 2008, 05:02 PM

Hardware

CPU: Athlon x2 4800 (dual core)
RAM: 2G (ebuyer value)
Video Card: Onboard ATI X1250 (690g chipset)
Sound Card: Onboard
HD: WD 500gb IDE
Remote: N/A
Tuners:
Others: Antec Fusion Black v2

Performance
All works fine expect lcd, volume knob and IR reciever. Some progress on this from codeka. Graphics work ok out of box through HDMI. Also had to install GUI mixer so I could enable SPDIF output. Some graphical glitches occasionally during video playback. HD playback has diagonal lines.

rickyble

March 10th, 2008, 08:01 AM

Backend

Hardware
CPU: dual 550s Pentium II
Ram: 1GIG
Video: 3D Oxygen
Remote: None
Hard drives: 30 GIG system
250 GIG /Home
Tuner: None
Capture Card: None

Performance: Excellent

Frontend

Hardware
CPU: 700 Pentium III
RAM: 320 GIG
Video Card: Nvidia FX 5500(both DVI and S-Video work)
Sound Card: Digital SPDIF
HD: 6 GIG
Remote: None
Tuners:None

Performance: Good

All videos are captured using hacked Directv and transcoding on the fly using TysuiteJ and saved to the Mythtv video directory. DVDs ripped are saved to the videos directory. Downloaded music saves to the Mythmusic directory. These are shared out though Samba and NFS mounts. Saved videos are both SD and HD. HD will not play smooth. Jerky. I suspect the CPU is not fast enough for HD. CD import will not work right now. I will add a tuner card and capture card eventually.

haggus

March 25th, 2008, 05:51 PM

Hardware

Asus M2NPV-VM
CPU AMD X2 5000 Brisbane Blackbox 65Nm
Northbridge Nvidia geforce 6150 GPU
Southbridge Nvidia nforce 430 MCP
2Gb Mushkin DDR2 800 Mhz Ram
250Gb Seagate SATA2 HD
Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse model YRK56-A
Soundmax 5.1 channel codec
twinahan 1020A red DVB-S
Hauppauge pvr 150 MCE
LG 42" plasma
5.1 surround through jvc home theatre

Everything was detected right out of the box with mythbuntu 7.10 x 64 however I did oringinally try 1Gb of kingston DDR2 667Mhz ram but had video problems with pxelation and mythfrontend regular crashes puuting more ram in seemed to fix this although it goes against everything I read because myth is not supposed to eat up ram. Running version 0.21 compiled from svn using debuild -us -uc I had tried the mce 150 remote which I had working twice but I couldn't get it to work well but with wireless mouse and keyboard don't really need this

jakev383

March 26th, 2008, 05:59 AM

imric

March 29th, 2008, 10:46 AM

Hardware
CPU:AMD2800
RAM:2gb
Video Card:nvidia fx5900
Sound Card:generic 16bsb
HD: 40gb, 250gb
Remote:winMCE usb
Tuners:
wintv-pvr-usb2
MSI PC@anywhere

Performance
The wintv tuner works fine.
The MSI card fails to initialize /dev/dsp1 (though it showed on the livecd), and so will not play through my sound card.

dafreak

March 30th, 2008, 08:29 AM

Hardware
CPU: P4 1.4Ghz
RAM: 768 MB
Video Card: Matrox G450MAX
Sound Card: Hercules Fortissimo
HD: Western Digital 40 GB
HD: Seagate 320 GB
Remote: MCE USB2 remote (really a Harmony 670 setup that way)
Tuners: ATi TV Wonder (pair of them)

Performance:

Video works fine out of the box although not at the resolution that I want to run it at. Sound continues to be an issue as I cannot get audio out of the SPDIF connector yet. Remote works great however which makes me happy. Lots of stuttering out of the ATi TV wonder cards though.

grytpype

March 30th, 2008, 10:42 AM

The following mobo did NOT work for me and is being replaced:

Asus M2V-MX SE Socket AM2 VIA K8M890 DDR2-800 PCI.e Motherboard

Everything was working except video capture. After about 2 sec of capture of either Firewire video or PVR-250 video with ivtv, the capture would freeze. The ivtv driver was throwing a DMA TIMEOUT error in syslog. I never determined the problem with the Firewire capture, but I figure it was probably a DMA problem as well.

Details here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=738387

I think the VIA chipset is very problematic with respect to DMA and should be avoided. I am replacing with an NForce-based mobo.

lilmagnus

March 31st, 2008, 04:53 PM

Hardware
CPU: P4 2.8GHz
RAM: 768 MB
Video Card: GeForce MX 440, 128 MB
Sound Card: On-board CMX?
HD: 160 GB
Remote: MCEUSB2
Tuners: Hauppauge PVR-500MCE
Wireless: D-Link WDA-2320 (restricted MadWifi drivers)

It all worked flawlessly after an hour of install, tweak, test. Windows XP with GB-PVR on same hardware was absolute CRAP!

NightwishFan

March 31st, 2008, 05:04 PM

CPU:AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ @ 2.0ghz
RAM: 2X 512 DDR2 (898 usable)
Display Adapter:Nvidia Geforce 6100/6150 nForce 430 Integrated (128mb)
Hard Disk: 200gb ATA WDC
Sound Card: Realtek (Unknown Model)
Internet: Unknown Ethernet

All works flawlessly except my display adapter which is almost always detected as 640x480 resolution max. Gutsy sees 1280x800(?) With the restricted drivers all works well (1440x900) although some programs assume I do not have Open GL acceleration when I presume I do.

jjohns63

April 4th, 2008, 11:12 PM

CPU: Intel E6750 Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz
Tuners: PVR-350, AverMEDIA A180
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L
Antec Fusion V2 Silver case

Well I had a couple issues, the tuner cards work great, just had to add the nxt2004 firmware for the A180. The mobo had one major problem, the NIC didn't work out of the box, the driver provided with Gutsy is incorrect. There's an updated driver on Realtek's website but it's hard to compile when you can't download any compilers. The case works great, the VFD works wonderfully, I'm very happy with that. But the built-in IR receiver apparently only works with MCE remotes. Oh well, I just used my homebrew seiral receiver.

Edit:
I'm using the onboard Intel G31 graphics and the onboard audio, only stereo, no SPDIF

johnnybirdman

April 5th, 2008, 04:16 PM

Hardware
CPU: P3 866 (Dell L866r guts in a different case)
RAM: 512
Video Card: evga mx4000 (nvidia)
Sound Card: generic - came from my parts box
HD: 1 - 40GB Maxtor; 1- 250GB Seagate
Remote: PVR-350 remote
Tuners: PVR-350
Mythbuntu Version: currently 8.04

Performance:
Tried an install with 7.10 first and it would not even boot into the live CD. 8.04 Live CD worked fine, then installed fine as well.
All hardware works out of the box. I don't use for recording TV but for .avi's/vids, DVD, music, weather, streaming, etc. and it all works. A few software beta bugs fixed and all is running well.
Hard to believe how easy it was to install and setup... and the remote was just plug in ir trans/rec, check the box and it worked. Awesome. Now just need to get a better looking HTPC case and get the PC of the floor and make the other half happy.

Only remaining issue is volume up/down does not actually control volume when playing music, but does for DVD and vid playback. Odd.
Thanks to the project leaders.
J.

Valentin_X

April 11th, 2008, 02:19 PM

Hardware
Setup: Primary Backend/Frontend (hardy fully patched)
CPU: E6600
RAM: 4.0 gb ram
Board: MSI P6N SLI
Video Card: NVIDIA 8800 GT 512MB Gainward
Sound Card: TerraTec aureon 5.1
HD1: 250 GB SATA hard drive
HD2: 250 GB SATA hard drive
HD3: 750 GB SATA hard drive
HD4: 500 GB USB hard drive
Tuners: LeadTek PVR 3200 H

Performance
graphic card not spontaneous working.. take some time to get it running. now xserver does not work proper after first login, if ctrl+alt+backspace and relogin it works more or less (gnome upper panel switch between the length of both screens and one screen, drive icons not shown and background is black and do not accept any input (eg. right click) ). TV tuner does not work until now. dvd playback does not work (css, read installed). sometimes shutdown is not working because xserver does not shut down (i have to make ctrl alt backspace ) then it shuts down with some network_manager errors. and last but not least only one (IDE) dvd device is recognized and i can not burn anything. most of the other stuff is working i think :lolflag:. hopefully i found the time to get the rest running. pm me if u have some tips.

cheers

techniciantf

April 20th, 2008, 03:38 PM

Have been trying and finally.........

Thanks for 8.x beta.
Although I could not get the grub loader to work.....

Have a-lot of different hardware and have been trying to find a system that works. It's not perfect but....

System 1 : Main Backend
P23G motherboard, Celeron 3ghz, 1 g mem. 500g sata, mce 150 w/remote.
All is working Well.

System 2 : Secondary Backend
M7VIG Pro mother, AMD something or other, 1g mem, 250g ide,
150 Happ Tuner.
All is Well

Looking to add three frontends, two more backends, and possible network boot.Definetly booting from usb or compact flash IDE adapters.

I have won a few tuners on Ebay and am going to expand the recording system soon.

Hardware Problems
Have a ADS usb instant tv, can't get to work.
Have V.Everything Geoforce2 Twin with tuner, no go.
Have Happ 1600 HD, getting working with newer system. but why can't I use the normal tuner?

Questions: Can i set up network cameras as channels to watch?
also, I'm not shure just how to use the video in (composite).

All in all, thanks for the great work on this project.