James Elsey wrote:
Has anyone setup MythTV to record TV shows?
I’ve been experimenting with MythTV for a few weeks with various media formats, but I’m quite intrigued to see how TV recording works.
Most of the tutorials I’ve found are based on US TV, apart from myth, are there any other apps that are good for recording from TV / Freeview?
If anyone has this setup, can you let me know what TV card/apps are best?
Regards
Hi James,
I've been using MythTv for about 3 years now, with 3 DVB (Freeview) Tuners. 2x Hauppauge Nova-T PCI cards and an Avermedia A800 USB tuner.
Once you have the right kernel modules built for the cards (the above listed ones are all supported by the standard kernel) jsut a dd a new channel source pointing to the DVB card, and it'll spring to life.
The system will automatically get the channel listings from the Freeview EPG, which will give you 7 days worth. You can also fetch data from Radiotimes.com using XMLTV which will give you 14 days.
The best part of it is the web interface, it's great being able to schedule recordings from work!
If you have a PS3, this can connect to mythbackends UPNP server and allow you to play back recordings. You can't however watch Live TV from a PS3.
All in all the setup is quite straight forward, so shouldn't take more than an hour to get it all configured.
HTH
Chris