How to install MythTV
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: How to install MythTV
started by: gstephane
Posted by gstephane on April 26 2006,19:53
Hello,Sorry for my broken english.
I want a mini distribution with MythTV for making HTPC. I look on internet but i don't find.
I have discover DSL and i think this is a good idea to install MythTV in this distribution with full MythTV plugins (weather, game, ...)
Please me help. Thank you very much.
Posted by sasho on April 27 2006,00:58
It is definitely possible--yesterday I decided to restore DSL with Mythtv on my hard drive. It's great--faster than VectorLInux I had on it before, and the playback is smooth on that old machine.
The procedure I used to install Mythtv on DSL can be seen in this thread:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....8;st=20 >
Should be 2nd post down.
Posted by gstephane on April 28 2006,20:25
Thank you very much for your reply 
Posted by Coume on June 04 2006,11:48
| Quote (sasho @ April 26 2006,20:58) |
| It is definitely possible--yesterday I decided to restore DSL with Mythtv on my hard drive. It's great--faster than VectorLInux I had on it before, and the playback is smooth on that old machine. The procedure I used to install Mythtv on DSL can be seen in this thread: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....8;st=20 > Should be 2nd post down. |
Hello,
I am planning to do the same thing. I will be using a CF-to-IDE to make a very silent Pundit MythTV frontend.
How big is your install with the mythfrontend and the dependencies installed? I am trying to find out what size of CF card I should buy.
Cheers,
Ludo
Posted by torp on June 05 2006,12:48
please let us know how this goes. a full up mythTV multimedia system in my project for the summer.torp
Posted by dtf on June 05 2006,13:26
I was also considering doing something similar but I thought the problem with setting this up on an older machine or one of the silent mini-itx platforms was they do not have the processing power to handle it. Does anyone have experience with setting this up and what might be considered minimum requirements for a hardware platform?
Posted by Coume on June 05 2006,13:47
| Quote (dtf @ June 05 2006,09:26) |
| Does anyone have experience with setting this up and what might be considered minimum requirements for a hardware platform? |
Hello,
You might want to check out The hardware forum of MythTvtalk: < http://www.mythtvtalk.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 >
You will be able to find out the needed hardware. If you use a PVR with hardware encoder, the min specs are quite low.
I will keep you posted and you will even have pics ;) In fact, we (a MythTVtalk moderator and I) are going to run the MythTV booth @ LUGRadio this summer in the UK and that's why I want to build this nice frontend.
I ordered the CF-to-IDE yesterday and will be ordering a CF card pretty soon. I just need to find out first the needed space for such DSL/MythTV install.
Cheers,
Ludo