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| rogue780 | argh. why does kubuntu have to be weird | 12:57 |
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| smacfarl | hello? | 02:13 |
| smacfarl | I have some questions about Mythubuntu | 02:14 |
| smacfarl | any takers? | 02:14 |
| tgm4883_laptop | smacfarl | 02:15 |
| tgm4883_laptop | what are your questions | 02:16 |
| smacfarl | oh hey! | 02:16 |
| smacfarl | So what is a good minimum box spec? | 02:16 |
| smacfarl | I have the option of buying some old P3 733 boxes no-os for 75USD | 02:17 |
| tgm4883_laptop | what do you want to do with it | 02:17 |
| smacfarl | and I was thinking about creating a Mythubuntu test box | 02:17 |
| smacfarl | I currently run MediaPortal on an XP box which is more powerful | 02:17 |
| smacfarl | However I don't like to pay windows tax | 02:17 |
| smacfarl | so I figured now is the time to support linux | 02:17 |
| smacfarl | And i really like ubuntu. So you gotta start somewhere | 02:18 |
| OpenMedia | smacfarl: what are you going to be displaying the TV on? | 02:18 |
| smacfarl | Literally a tv | 02:18 |
| smacfarl | old fashioned s-component | 02:18 |
| smacfarl | split the PC audio card to two channel | 02:18 |
| smacfarl | in the back | 02:18 |
| OpenMedia | US or Europe? | 02:18 |
| smacfarl | US | 02:18 |
| tgm4883_laptop | read this http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 | 02:19 |
| smacfarl | Media Portal does a nice job of displaying video content | 02:19 |
| OpenMedia | You would be ok for SD but not for HD | 02:19 |
| smacfarl | Standard Def vs High Def right? | 02:19 |
| smacfarl | readding link | 02:19 |
| smacfarl | I know this page | 02:19 |
| smacfarl | I see the differences are if you want to record while watching | 02:20 |
| smacfarl | and 256 mb of ram minimum | 02:20 |
| smacfarl | Sutpid question does Myth TV use VLC under the covers? | 02:20 |
| smacfarl | to play video? | 02:20 |
| tgm4883_laptop | no | 02:21 |
| tgm4883_laptop | well it could i think | 02:21 |
| smacfarl | I think VLC is pretty embedable. Is the player that comes with Myth Good? | 02:21 |
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| smacfarl | I have a whole variety of video files | 02:21 |
| smacfarl | btw thank you for being here to answer my stupid questions. | 02:22 |
| tgm4883_laptop | yea it's pretty good. You can also select a video players for each file type | 02:22 |
| smacfarl | nice | 02:22 |
| smacfarl | Media Portal runs on dot net and allows an external player, but you lose the control from the main application | 02:22 |
| smacfarl | it just launches like a shell command launch rather than using the other player within the main applicaiton | 02:23 |
| smacfarl | Ok. Any video card recommendations. You guys seem to support more drivers than the default myth tv | 02:24 |
| tgm4883_laptop | pvr-150 | 02:25 |
| tgm4883_laptop | or the pvr-500 if you want 2 tuners in one card | 02:25 |
| tgm4883_laptop | and if your looking a saving money you can use the pvr remote, but if you want a nicer remote i recommend the MCE remote | 02:26 |
| smacfarl | is that the hauppage wintv pvr-500 you are recommending? | 02:30 |
| tgm4883_laptop | yep | 02:32 |
| tgm4883_laptop | do you have a cable box? | 02:34 |
| smacfarl | You can get the mce remote in the kit hauppage offers. That's the one you are talking about right? | 02:41 |
| smacfarl | no I don't. | 02:41 |
| smacfarl | I don't actually have cable. All my video is internet or from my dvd collection | 02:42 |
| smacfarl | what were you wondering about the cable box? | 02:42 |
| smacfarl | myth tv replaces the cable box right? It does schedule browsing and the like? | 02:42 |
| tgm4883_laptop | yeah, but if you have a cable box you can stream via firewire | 02:43 |
| tgm4883_laptop | if you don't have cable, what are you going to record? | 02:43 |
| smacfarl | nothing. I actually don't need the recorder. | 02:44 |
| tgm4883_laptop | ah | 02:44 |
| smacfarl | I just need something to playback the video, and and do an out to a tv. Cheaply | 02:44 |
| smacfarl | It seemed like there were some driver problems with Myth TV and cards so I was hoping to get the Viideo card(s) that would have the least problems | 02:45 |
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| smacfarl | In fact. I was originally hoping I could get a bare motherboard with video and sound onboard, and just plug that into the tv | 02:45 |
| tgm4883_laptop | I use to use an nVidia Geforce 7300GS, it had a dongle that output component and svideo | 02:46 |
| tgm4883_laptop | it worked pretty well | 02:46 |
| smacfarl | are there video cards to avoid? | 02:46 |
| tgm4883_laptop | ati | 02:46 |
| tgm4883_laptop | and any $400 cards as that is overkill | 02:47 |
| smacfarl | so any low end nvidia card is good. Does it need to do mpeg2 decoding? | 02:47 |
| smacfarl | Will myth tv be smart enough to use mpeg-2 decoding on the video card rather than the cpu | 02:48 |
| tgm4883_laptop | i believe so | 02:51 |
| tgm4883_laptop | I believe that it is compiled to do that | 02:51 |
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| needinfo | Still seeking help! Would there be any available? | 06:34 |
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| needinfo | Help?? | 06:39 |
| tgm4883_laptop | whats the question? | 06:41 |
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| superm1 | laga, Daviey DaveMorris ping | 04:53 |
| laga | pong | 04:53 |
| superm1 | laga, any luck on the mythweb postrm on trunk? | 04:54 |
| DaveMorris | ping | 04:54 |
| laga | no, doesn't seem so :( haven't investigarted much more due to RL interferences :( | 04:54 |
| superm1 | DaveMorris, i was going to see if you knew how to make the latex files make links in that index | 04:55 |
| superm1 | i've seen some latex made pdfs that do that | 04:55 |
| DaveMorris | clickable links | 04:55 |
| DaveMorris | I'll investigate | 04:55 |
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| superm1 | OpenMedia, man am i exhausted. i didn't sleep more than 1 hr on the plane yesterday | 05:52 |
| superm1 | er well today i guess - since it was a 12:30am flight | 05:52 |
| OpenMedia | superm1: I'm beginning to feel like my body is pickled. | 05:53 |
| superm1 | haha | 05:53 |
| OpenMedia | As long as you had a "good time" ;) | 05:53 |
| superm1 | did you make it out to the google awards thing yesterday evening? | 05:53 |
| superm1 | yea | 05:53 |
| OpenMedia | Yeah, it was a bit quiet though. | 05:53 |
| superm1 | where was it? Andrew and i walked around for a few, but didn't know where to head | 05:54 |
| superm1 | and there was a guard standing post, so it would have looked fishy for us to just start checking rooms | 05:54 |
| DaveMorris | you could of asked ;) | 06:08 |
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