Are you using Mythtv or something else?

I am running a few myth backends and a few separate frontends. With 6 tuners installed, I don't miss many programs!

oliver said...

Yahoo I've met another MythTV nut

Yeah, guilty.

I can't get the DVD playback to work though, and I have not had any luck with DVD ripping either. I can't get mytharchive to work as well.

Its sad but I go through withdrawal symptoms if something goes wrong and I have to watch 'live' tv (the pain of watching ads!)

I used to have 2 backends set up separately so that if I was changing one I still have the first to record from.

Time for you 2 to get a room ........with lots of TV's & thingummies

There's nothing illegal yet about two grown men enjoying their WiFi's and their TV's. What else is there to do when the conditions don't suit? I'm tiring of Julian Assard, conspiracies, drowned boat people and the news in general. I don't have skills in inverted welders, too old to be an apprentice - besides I did warn it was a crap topic.

Sounds like you could do with one of these too, I'm not much into tv but I love my music and I'm loving this system.

Anyone else using one of these systems?

http://www.sonos.com/Default.aspx?rdr=true&LangType=1033

oliver said...

Oh really, I use the add skip seems to work great and then I edit the programs afterwards and transcode them. Ads suck. If I want to share them with someone else I've got some homegrown mencoder and ffmpeg scripts that transcode for iphone, ipad, stupid windows if I want. Most of the time the programs just sit there. I don't watch realtime anymore. In fact, I don't watch TV - I configure it.

I also have a 30G music library running on my backend that I stream to my frontends using MPD that I control with an app on my iphone. Sure beats stupid itunes.

Can't belive I've met someone else who knows what the hell I'm so excited about.

Yeah, I had all my CDs ripped and using MythTV but I seem to have lost them when I upgraded a few versions ago.

I never got around to getting it to work but the idea was that I wanted to transcode to mp4 for an Ipod or even my Telstra T-tab so I could watch them on the train to work. Oh well, a project for the really quiet days.

I went to all the trouble trying to build a machine to play HD and now it seems too easy. I ended up using some ex-lease PCs from ebay to use as frontends and they play HD easily out of the box, without the need to use NVidia cards. They were cheap too. I think for $130 I got a machine that was great for Myth. They are even quiet unless they get stuck into doing a lot and the fans cut in.

If you can give me some tips on setting up archiving to DVDs it would be appreciated.

[b]I used to have 2 backends set up separately so that if I was changing one I still have the first to record from.

like the proverbial dog with 2 tails

Ive got just the one backend and one front end.
I try not to use the backend while watching tv.....

Oliver you need to stop playing with your back end and get out some more.

Definitely more into the front end but head unit sounds promising.
This has been a great topic by the way.

MythTV changed the whole way we watch TV instead of passively watching random shows and channel surfing when you get home, you scroll through the program guide and select the programs you want to watch. You select from options such as 'record only this showing', 'record at any time on this channel' etc. Myth Backend will record the selected programs in the background, then a process will run through the recorded program and edit out the ads, using various algorithms, which work pretty well. So when you are ready to watch TV - you watch what you want, when you want, without the ads. Realtime is for newbs

I just got back from the US and TV is so crap here. I'm really missing Celebrity Rehab - I was enjoying watching Leif Garrets progress there, Jerseylicious, Jersey Shores, Celebrity Wives, and Half Ton Teen - so much qual.


See - he is doing well.

I'm glad you asked - see, that spot on his upper nose has healed well, and he appears so much happier these days - he can thank Dr. Drew for that.



Here he is in his prime.