Unknown devise

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 16:23:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> That's what MythTV does.  It's an opensource app the makes your desktop
> act like Windows Media Center.  It can DVR TV shows, you can scan
> through, skipping commercials, etc.  I use it, when I actually get TV.
> I've not had it at my house since January, and personally haven't missed
> it.  I mean, all I watch is Midsomer Murders, Mythbusters and Avatar.
>
> But seriously, the box you have does that same thing MythTv does, except
> it encodes the shows to MPEG format for you instead of expecting the CPU
> to do so.

Now now Mark - his CPU isn't a TV tuner, which that box sounds like it is.
MythTV can't convert TV to video without hardware help.

Go back to your corners boys.

Brian




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