Philly & SE PA: September 22, MythTV Seminar

[elizabeth]

Matt Mossholder will be doing a MythTV Seminar on Saturday September 22nd. This will be a follow-up to his Myth demo at the Software Freedom Day celebration at PACS.

All the information about this event can be found on the wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/Philly/MythTVSeminar

Right now we're looking for more volunteers and attendees.

Volunteers: I've been organizing this but am unsure about my availability that day, so I might not be able to attend. If a few folks in the Philly area have some time that day to help setup and coordinate the work I'd REALLY appreciate it.

Attendees: Have a machine you want to try Myth on? Just interested in the basics of Myth? Matt will be doing a MythTV setup on Ubuntu and then helping people install and configure their own machines. Signup on the wiki.

[jedijf]

Based upon the interest in Matt's demo at the Software Freedom Day event at PACS, this event should be hot.

Even if you are not ready to setup a mythtv box stop by and check it out.

[elizabeth]

This turned out to be a really fun event (sorry I showed up so late!). We had about 16 attendees, and a number of folks who attended were also able to help Matt getting the systems going after his talk.

I took a few photos, just tossed them up on the gallery:

http://gallery.meetlinux.com/main.php?g2_itemId=288

Thanks again to Jonathan Simpson and the ATS Group for hosting and providing refreshments!

A huge thanks to Matt Mossholder for making this such a success, I missed his presentation and the Q&A session but from what people said it was great, I learned a lot in discussions afterwards.

[nonewmsgs]

i really want to get into mythtv or maybe knoppixmythtv. does it worth with satallite tv or just analog cable and is it possible to set it up with digital cable? has there been any "progress" with the token in the programs that control how you handle the tv shows you record and how long they can last? are there recomended haupage cards? how much would a typical system cost? are you single?

the last one was a joke. the edit is telling you that.

[elizabeth]

i really want to get into mythtv or maybe knoppixmythtv. does it worth with satallite tv or just analog cable and is it possible to set it up with digital cable? has there been any "progress" with the token in the programs that control how you handle the tv shows you record and how long they can last? are there recomended haupage cards? how much would a typical system cost? are you single?

Matt Mossholder is the one who did the presentation (and yes, he is married) so he knows a lot more than I do about it and could answer your questions much better. His slides might be a good place to start, they are now linked to the bottom of the wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/Philly/MythTVSeminar

He used Mythbuntu (http://www.mythbuntu.org/) in his presentation, which from what I saw was an excellent alternative to Knoppmyth, and is under heavy development so each release is much better than the last.

[mossholderm]

i really want to get into mythtv or maybe knoppixmythtv. does it worth with satallite tv or just analog cable and is it possible to set it up with digital cable? has there been any "progress" with the token in the programs that control how you handle the tv shows you record and how long they can last? are there recomended haupage cards? how much would a typical system cost? are you single?

the last one was a joke. the edit is telling you that.

Satallite works, but you need to work out how to get myth to change the channels... either with an IR blaster, or a serial connection into the STB. Same for digital cable.

Not quite sure what you mean by the tokens...

Hauppauge is still at the top of everone's list, but there are lots of alternatives as well. The mythtv wiki has a good list of what works.

Typical system cost depends on whether you want HD or not... non-HD systems can be assembled from a 500MHz PC and a sub-$100 tuner. Some of the tuners even come with remotes...