FWIW - go to digg.com and search for "myth" - a lot of folks have posted links to Myth TV setup HOWTOs. Josh Thomas Johnson wrote: > At some point I am going to want the TV capture feaures (moving in > with a bunch of TV nuts), but right now I'm just looking to playback > some DVD disc images, music, and other random video files from a > remote control, idiot-resistant interface. > > Once I get Myth working right, my desktop will probably cease to serve > as a desktop. I'll just move it out my my home theater setup and let > it sit. I rarely use the desktop anyways, I prefer my laptop in bed to > sitting at my desk. Currently it has an ancient SBLive! that sounds > great for two channel sound, but I've got the full surround system and > I would like to take advantage of it. My video card is a Nvidia FX5300 > with an s-video output, so it sould work, although I'm a bit > corncerned about the quality of s-video compared to component outputs. > In my experience, s-video outputs seem blurry, and once again, I've > got the home theater setup with the 16:9 TV, I'd like to utilize its > capabilities. > > On 3/3/06, Dave Sherohman <esper at sherohman.org> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 02:20:07PM -0600, Thomas Johnson wrote: >>> I'm thinking about turning my desktop into a MythTV box to play DVD >>> images straight from the harddrive. >> If you're *just* looking to play DVDs, then MythTV is serious, >> serious overkill. IIRC, it just calls mplayer, xine, or whatever >> other external player you've configured when you tell it to show a >> DVD (or any other video file that's not a MythTV-created recording of >> a TV show), so, if you're not planning to record TV shows, you're >> going to be better off just installing mplayer, xine, or whatever >> other player and just using that directly. >> >> Also, from a design perspective, mythfrontend is somewhat desktop- >> hostile. Its design is so heavily focused on being run full-screen >> on a dedicated box and managed with a remote control that it's clumsy >> to use in any other way. Running a myth client on my normal desktop >> system, I've found that it appears to have no way to resize the video >> window or toggle between windowed and full-screen modes short of >> stopping playback and wading through the setup screens for every >> minor change; it completely ignores all mouse input; and (under >> WindowMaker, at least) it always starts up with no title bar on its >> window, making it impossible to move the window without bringing up >> the window settings (via keyboard) and manually turning off 'disable >> titlebar' each and every time it's run. (Yes, this is one of my >> major pet peeves with MythTV... I absolutely believe that programs >> should concentrate on doing one thing well, but not to the extent of >> making it harder to do anything even slightly different.) >> >> On hardware recommendations, I can't offer any suggestions for a >> sound card (I'm perfectly happy with analog stereo, so I've never >> paid attention to SPDIF and have no memory of ever even hearing of >> TOSLINK before), but, for video, my dedicated MythTV box is using a >> plain old Radeon 9200 and I've had no problems with it, although most >> people on the MythTV mailing lists seem to advocate nVidia cards over >> ATI. >> >> -- >> The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the >> White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that >> we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. >> - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >