Thanks to several kind people on the MythTV mailing list, I have made some progress on several of the issues that I mentioned yesterday regarding my MythTV personal video recorder.
Watch Live TV While Recording, Part II
It turns out this functionality can be achieved in one of two ways: get a TV that supports multiple lines in, or get an additional TV capture card.
The benefit of the latter setup is that I would gain the ability to record two things at once as well. I’m going to put this idea on a “late summer” timeframe.
Pl4yZ0r Th3m DVDz, Part II
I was also given the names/models of several excellent DVD-R drives that work well with MythTV. They are all roughly as expensive as a tuner card, so this will have to go onto a late summer, early fall timeframe.
If I can find a good enough deal, I will get this with my other capture card.
Emulation, por favor, Part II
I was also informed that several of the generic USB gamepad devices work just fine in Linux. This has not been my experience, as I have NO IDEA where the system magically mounts the USB devices once they have hooked up to the system.
Perhaps a bit more research, this could be an early timeframe thing as the most expensive USB gaming device is about $20 at Walmart.
And once again, for saving my back
Yeah… so this is the one area in Computer Science where theory diverges from practice for me… apparently, my cable router has two DCHP addresses operational now.
Theoretically, my Linux machine should have *at least* a webserver running that I should be able to get to, but when I visit either of the IP addresses on my Windows machine neither hooks up. MythTV generates a nice HTML page listing the current recording schedule that I want to be able to see from my Windows box. You get to this by visiting http://mylocalmythmachineaddress:6544. I can access this locally on the Linux machine, but not anywhere else.
I have a feeling it is because I don’t believe that the cable router has any ability to directly tether together the computers that are on them via IP, so I have to go out past the router which means I’m in Real IP Country. Since I don’t know what that is for my Linux box, I’m screwn.
That page isn’t the only thing I want to access… I know vnc and ssh are installed on my Linux box, and it would be the teats if I could just vnc into that machine and change my scheduling priorities, etc.
Anyway, there are a few new areas of research to be had… I noticed there is an entry for Xbox hardware support, which intrigues me greatly. I also need to monkey with the remote control settings because they’re just a tad clunky… I’d love to get a TiVo remote to use with this thing. 🙂
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