Strange.. I'll be the 5'6" 230lb. guy, possibly in a baseball cap (Red
Hat one) w/ a white iBook as well....
Navy blue Nike cap for me, most likely. And a bit on the young side. ;)
Anyone else plan on attending?
I'll make my best attempt to be there (where "there" is defined as the
GSLUG meeting this Saturday from 10am to 4pm). I might be wearing a Helix
ballcap.
Cool. At least 3 of us in one place at one time then...
Yeah, for a software-encoding card like that "POS" as you call it (very
aptly named, in fact; I have a similar POS in my collection), a Duron
950 won't cut it. Now with a PVR-x50 hardware encoding card, my Athlon
800 does fine... I just got a pcHDTV card; very cool... MythTV has been
rapidly maturing. I maintain a decent little write-up on how to install
from scratch on RHL9, entirely from rpms now (see sig)... Okay, veering
back on-topic...
Veering back off topic: I maintain the webvcr+ project and have had great
success with the Hauppauge WinTV Theatre card. It was $200 and it came
with a radio tuner, an IR receiver and a remote control. You can pay $40
for one without any bells and whistles.
Veering WAY off-topic: The $40 one is the one Jesse is referring to as a POS. I have to agree with him on that account, since I have two far superior cards (for MythTV, anyhow), the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 and the pcHDTV HD-2000. The PVR-250 is <$150, and has a hardware mpeg2 encoder chip (even better, the 350 has hardware mpeg2 codec and radio, both 250 and 350 come w/remotes & receivers), which takes a bunch of CPU load off the box. The pcHDTV card simply moves mpeg2 transport streams off the air and onto your hard drive for HDTV signals, and operates similar to the WinTV Go/Theater/non-PVR cards for analog stations.
I have to admit, I'm not at all familiar with webvcr+. I'll have to look into that some... Okay, I just did. Seems there is a fair amount of overlap between it and MythTV, both in features and methodology, though I can't tell if webvcr+ has a native viewer interface. My MythTV system is connected only to my 47" HDTV, and I can do everything with it via remote control (though I have a Gyration wireless keyboard and mouse also). Are you familiar with MythTV at all?
--Jarod
-- Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
Got a question? Read this first...
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
MythTV, Red Hat Linux 9 & ATrpms documentation:
http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-page.php?pageName=rh9pvr250
MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/MythTV_C2/