mythtv vs gbpvr

[fuzzweed]

It's like most everything else in Linux (IMO)...do you want to spend your time using it or fiddling with it to get it to work?

LOL this is soooo true. Now I just need to learn to stop fiddling with GBPVR too (like the girlfriend tells me every day).....

[nitrogen_widget]

LOL this is soooo true. Now I just need to learn to stop fiddling with GBPVR too (like the girlfriend tells me every day).....

I'm proud to say I have not touched my GBPVR server (for media tweaking or playing) for almost 2 months.

[acheyne]

I haven't been on the forums for a while as GBPVR has been working perfectly for me and I've been busy with other things.

I also came over to GBPVR after trying MythTV. I wish I hadn't even tried Myth - what a waste of time trying to get it all working properly only to have it not do what I wanted. The last straw came when I took a look at what I was going to have to do to get surround sound support working when playing a DVD.. holy crap!

Since then, I've put GBPVR on and the machine now sits in the living room full time instead of spending 95% of the time in my office so I can "fix things". The down side was having to pay for a license of XP, but considering GBPVR is free, I didn't complain too much.

[Ted the Penguin]

people still pay for XP?
and NO I am not even talking about piracy, I <3 MSDN/MSDNAA

[acheyne]

I assuming that by MSDN, you're talking about having a MSDN subscription?

That was paid for?

[Ted the Penguin]

by my job, and MSDNAA was from the school. so I didnt pay.

although I do admit that I did buy XP when I built my first machine...

[herbs]

Yep I only ever paid for win95 which came with my first pc, the rest were through a select contract at work, where everyone can have windows and office free to install on their home pc. I was too cheap to buy mce as for a strange reason we don't get that, funnily enough thats how I found out about gbpvr.

[duncan]

I`ve been a Mythtv user for approx 3 years. The early days where hard - nowadays it`s pretty easy so long as you get the right distro. There are plenty of howto`s out there on the net. For the last year I have been running it on SMEServer.

Alot of the difficulties are not related to the app itself but related to other bits and pieces. Unsupported hardware, getting Mysql - Apache up and running etc.

Nice thing about Mythtv is that it will run with any card supported under Linux. I`ve been going for years on a crappy old Leadtek XP2000.

I`m going to give GBPVR a go because of some of the features not available in Mythtv - and I`m really keen to try out the MVP option. I gave it a quick try today with a Dvico lite and it worked pretty well.

[herbs]

Have you checked that Select contract recently? Over here, at least, select contracts have excluded free home use for several years now.

I don't deal with that side, but as its an university I work for I would believe its still within the deal. Its the same with sophos but even the students get that for the cost of a disc.

[K.S.]

The only other solution that I found to support the 350's output was GBPVR - and I stopped looking after that. -nuff said?

funny, that's what got me here too. meanwhile, i've dumped the 350' tv-out as it wasn't really stable & i don't have a analog source anymore... switched hardware to dvb-t & i'm still using GBPVR. WAF is nearly unbeatable ;-)
and the main points to belittle WAF are > 90% out of the influence of GBPVR => me messing up this, playing around with that, coding a small plugin & trying it out (yeah, i know, never touch a running system, hard to comply with if i don't want to spend the money associated with a second recording source ;-) , the computer beeing rather big & to loud...