Hardware recommendations for MythTV/FreeBSD

[Adam Maloney]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Steven S. wrote:

> build and did not try the latest. Instead I switched to Freevo. The web based

Freevo - yeah, that's the other one I looked at.

> The biggest downside is I cannot get ffmpeg, mencoder nor transcode to work 
> well enough with the pvr-250 so I wrote a dirty little shell script to cat 
> the cxm device to the filesystem. It works but I wish I could alter the bit 
> rate the pvr card outputs at, 10mbit resolution creates 4gig/hr files at full 
> NTSC size.

Couldn't you cat it directly to mplayer or something, and have mplayer 
convert to a smaller format?

> For the most part the pvr-250 is plug and play. Most of the tuners are 
> supported so you should be okay. I've not fiddled with source selection, from 
> what I gather from reply's here it seems to be hit or miss, oddly. I would 
> guess it would work. Unless it doesnt.

That's kind of what I suspected...everyone is pretty sure it will work 
fine, but no one wants to out-right guaranty it :)  But unless I hear any 
real negative feedback from others, I think my mind is made up on the 
PVR-250.

Now...where to buy?

Thanks for the response!