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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:49:20PM +0100, James Fidell wrote: > Fortunately we now have a shiny new high-gain aerial. Unfortunately I > have to run 40m of aerial cable to get it to the PC, through a wall at > least two feet thick, so it hasn't happened yet. 40m of cable, even CT100, ain't going to do our signal strength much good. You might need a masthead booster. > I've been running mythtv since v0.7, when it was a bit of a pig to get > running. These days (v0.18.1 -- I've got not around to upgrading to > v0.19 yet) it seems to work for most people without too much pain. The > VCR isn't quite unused these days (we still have some stuff on tape that > I haven't digitised yet), but I've not recorded anything on tape in well > over a year. Certainly it has its faults (the music player bit has a > truly awful user interface), but generally I'm really pleased with it. Agreed, even my S.O uses it. I've be merilly recording things for over a year now, and the only problem I have is running out of disk space! Music interface could be better, as could recording management, but being able to have every episode of a series recording, then recompressing it for my zaurus, and automatically uploading when it docks, is amazing. I don't play DVDs through it, as the interlacing in the video out isn't too shiny, and a dedicate DVD player is just fine. The box also acts as mail/dns/web/file/ssh server too. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html