Screw MythTV. Screw Linux. Screw half-assed cobbled together software. This weekend I deleted MythTV, formatted the HD and installed Snapsteam’s Beyond TV. I don’t regret it a bit.
There are a lot of happy MythTV users, but I was never one of them. The days getting the system working turned into weeks. Even after the system [...]

The mythbox will live either behind the TV or eventually in the basement. Running wired ethernet isn’t practical, so I’ll have to use a wireless adapter.
I chose the D-Link WDA-1320. It’s supported by madwifi on Linux and other people didn’t have much trouble getting it to work. Always a plus in Linux.
I had to [...]

I want to use the MythTV as a headless box, if you don’t count the TV. The best way to do that is using a remote client like VNC. For the Mac, Chicken of the VNC works great. It gives you a remote GUI so it is like having the MythTV box right on my [...]

I finally settled back to MythDora 4.0. While it was giving me fits, there is more included and just plain better. Not to mention, that I finally got it working.
What was the magic recipe? Umm…not positive. It was a matter of much trial and error. I know I did over 10 complete re-installs of MythDora [...]

I have only a basic level of Linux experience. I hacked my Tivo and did some playing with it, but never got very deep into it. Mythtv runs on Linux, so this project has been the most I’ve ever dealt with the OS. I doubt I’ll ever make Linux a desktop environment for a LONG [...]

Getting Mythtv installed and running can be a real hassle. In order to make things easier, people have created install discs that take care of a lot of the manual steps. The two biggest are KnoppMyth and MythDora.
KnoppMyth fits on a CD while MythDora is burned to a DVD. I ended up going with [...]

My motherboard hated any nvidia graphics cards. It seems that PC CHIPS has a varied reputation amongst computer builders. While it has worked great for me, it really bit me when it refused to play nice with nvidia. I stopped buying cards after the second one, so it may not like ATI cards as well.
I [...]