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mcdent at gmail

Nov 16, 2009, 8:27 AM

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Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview.

Hi,
Hopefully this will be my last "recommendation" email, at least for now.

What is a good choice for 2 physical freeview tuners these days in a mythtv box?
i.e. I need to be able to record at least 2 channels at the same time.

Is it best to go with USB devices these days? I'm looking for
recommendation of card or usb tuner which works
with little or no fuss, available in the UK.

Thanks again,
Mike
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Nov 16, 2009, 8:37 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
such as technotrend cards.

Each tuner can record all channels on the mux simultaneously (so it strictly
meets your reqmts of recording two channels simultaneously) but if you want
to record *any* two channels you need dual tuners

Please excuse brevity and mistakes, this email was composed on a mobile
phone.

Thanks and regards,
Richard Morton

On 16 Nov 2009 16:27, "Mike Dent" <mcdent [at] gmail> wrote:

Hi,
Hopefully this will be my last "recommendation" email, at least for now.

What is a good choice for 2 physical freeview tuners these days in a mythtv
box?
i.e. I need to be able to record at least 2 channels at the same time.

Is it best to go with USB devices these days? I'm looking for
recommendation of card or usb tuner which works
with little or no fuss, available in the UK.

Thanks again,
Mike
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Nov 16, 2009, 8:49 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On 16 Nov 2009, at 16:37, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton [at] gmail>
wrote:

> Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent
> hauppauge usb sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything
> with the same chipset, such as technotrend cards.
>

You can get dual tuner in USB format.

Model 1175 nova-t diversity dual tuner should find it.

Email me off list of you want a link to a retailer named after a cut
down forested region :-)

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Nov 16, 2009, 11:15 PM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

Richard Morton wrote:
> Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge
> usb sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same
> chipset, such as technotrend cards.
>
> Each tuner can record all channels on the mux simultaneously (so it
> strictly meets your reqmts of recording two channels simultaneously) but
> if you want to record *any* two channels you need dual tuners
>
> Please excuse brevity and mistakes, this email was composed on a mobile
> phone.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Richard Morton
>
>
>
>> On 16 Nov 2009 16:27, "Mike Dent" <mcdent [at] gmail
>> <mailto:mcdent [at] gmail>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Hopefully this will be my last "recommendation" email, at least for now.
>>
>> What is a good choice for 2 physical freeview tuners these days in a
>> mythtv box?
>> i.e. I need to be able to record at least 2 channels at the same time.
>>
>> Is it best to go with USB devices these days? I'm looking for
>> recommendation of card or usb tuner which works
>> with little or no fuss, available in the UK.
>>

I have a Nova T-500, an Avermedia PCI and an Avermedia USB tuner all of
which work fine.

Ian.
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Nov 17, 2009, 4:36 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=222858
which is a dual usb stick, now price dropped to �25.

I've had one for about 9 months and bought a second recently (happily
on a dual core revo SBE). The driver was still in development when I
got my first one but has been stable for a long time now.

Your distro vendor may have support for them out of the box, my debian
lenny (2.6.26) did not. They may be included in later kernel releases
by default, I don't know. But installation was:

Download latest http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/ package,
tar xvjf
make
make install.

modprobe dvb-usb-af9015

or thereabouts, ymmv.

this works against the current debian kernel release, and will work
with more recent kernels as the
well.

It was necessary to have /lib/firmware/dvb-usb-af9015.fw but that was
trivial to get iirc.

basically its an easy install and they work great. I have my original
stick setup as tuners 2 & 3 and can record 2 simultanous programs with
multirec.
I recommend.

cheers
dave
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Nov 17, 2009, 5:01 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

2009/11/17 David Scammell <davescammell [at] gmail>:
> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=222858
> which is a dual usb stick, now price dropped to �25.
>
> I've had one for about 9 months and bought a second recently (happily
> on a dual core revo SBE). The driver was still in development when I
> got my first one but has been stable for a long time now.
>
> Your distro vendor may have support for them out of the box, my debian
> lenny (2.6.26) did not. They may be included in later kernel releases
> by default, I don't know. But installation was:
>
> Download latest http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/ �package,
> tar xvjf
> make
> make install.
>
> modprobe dvb-usb-af9015
>
> or thereabouts, ymmv.
>
> this works against the current debian kernel release, and will work
> with more recent kernels as the
> well.
>
> It was necessary to have /lib/firmware/dvb-usb-af9015.fw but that was
> trivial to get iirc.
>
> basically its an easy install and they work great. I have my original
> stick setup as tuners 2 & 3 and can record 2 simultanous programs with
> multirec.
> I recommend.
>
> cheers
> dave

Dave, thanks!
That seems a good buy for a dual tuner!
Mike
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Nov 18, 2009, 7:20 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Mon, November 16, 2009 4:37 pm, Richard Morton wrote:
> Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
> sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
> such as technotrend cards.
>
> Each tuner can record all channels on the mux simultaneously (so it
> strictly
> meets your reqmts of recording two channels simultaneously) but if you
> want
> to record *any* two channels you need dual tuners

Hmm sorry to hope on the thread I noticed you can specify max recordings
per capture card in mythtv-setup, if one is using the Nova T-500 for
instance and there were 4 channels available on each MUX could you in
theory set max recordings to 4 for each individual tuner? (I've currently
got mine set as 2 max recordings per tuner).

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Nov 18, 2009, 7:25 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

2009/11/18 David Knight <dlknight [at] sdf>:
> On Mon, November 16, 2009 4:37 pm, Richard Morton wrote:
>> Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
>> sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
>> such as technotrend cards.
>>
>> Each tuner can record all channels on the mux simultaneously (so it
>> strictly
>> meets your reqmts of recording two channels simultaneously) but if you
>> want
>> to record *any* two channels you need dual tuners
>
> Hmm sorry to hope on the thread I noticed you can specify max recordings
> per capture card in mythtv-setup, if one is using the Nova T-500 for
> instance and there were 4 channels available on each MUX could you in
> theory set max recordings to 4 for each individual tuner? (I've currently
> got mine set as 2 max recordings per tuner).

Yes, although please check first with 3 and then 4 simultaneous
recordings per tuner to check your particular system can cope with the
added IO/database load.

Cheers,
Nick

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Nov 18, 2009, 7:29 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Wed Nov 18, 2009 at 03:20:05PM -0000, David Knight wrote:

> On Mon, November 16, 2009 4:37 pm, Richard Morton wrote:
> > Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
> > sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
> > such as technotrend cards.
> >
> > Each tuner can record all channels on the mux simultaneously (so it
> > strictly
> > meets your reqmts of recording two channels simultaneously) but if you
> > want
> > to record *any* two channels you need dual tuners
>
> Hmm sorry to hope on the thread I noticed you can specify max recordings
> per capture card in mythtv-setup, if one is using the Nova T-500 for
> instance and there were 4 channels available on each MUX could you in
> theory set max recordings to 4 for each individual tuner? (I've currently
> got mine set as 2 max recordings per tuner).
>
Yes, you can set it to any value you like. More virtual tuners will
probably clutter interfaces and slow down scheduling though (and, of
course, you need enough I/O bandwidth to write the data to disk as
well).

Cheers,
Robin
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Nov 18, 2009, 8:40 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

2009/11/16 Richard Morton <richard.e.morton [at] gmail>

> Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
> sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
> such as technotrend cards.
>
>
> I have two Nova-t-500's in my backend, and they for the most part they work
well. Just a warning, and I'm not sure if this is only specific to my setup
but I do occassionally (maybe once sometimes twice a month) have an issue
where a nova-t-500 card will lock up, and I need to power the backend off
(ie remove power to the machine) and restart and all is well. A reboot will
not suffice. I've never got to the bottom of this - and wonder if anyone
else has ever seen this issue?

Cheers,
Steve.

nico at youplala

Nov 18, 2009, 8:50 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:40 +0000, Steve Curtis wrote:
> 2009/11/16 Richard Morton <richard.e.morton [at] gmail>
>
> > Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent
> hauppauge usb
> > sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same
> chipset,
> > such as technotrend cards.
> >
> >
> > I have two Nova-t-500's in my backend, and they for the most part
> they work
> well. Just a warning, and I'm not sure if this is only specific to my
> setup
> but I do occassionally (maybe once sometimes twice a month) have an
> issue
> where a nova-t-500 card will lock up, and I need to power the backend
> off
> (ie remove power to the machine) and restart and all is well. A
> reboot will
> not suffice. I've never got to the bottom of this - and wonder if
> anyone
> else has ever seen this issue?
>
>

Are you just losing a tuner?

If so:

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500#Losing_one_tuner.3F

If it is really locking up, sorry, mine doesn't do that.

Nico

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Nov 18, 2009, 10:23 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

2009/11/18 Steve Curtis <scurtis [at] fixation>:
> 2009/11/16 Richard Morton <richard.e.morton [at] gmail>
>>
>> Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent hauppauge usb
>> sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same chipset,
>> such as technotrend cards.
>
> I have two Nova-t-500's in my backend, and they for the most part they work
> well. �Just a warning, and I'm not sure if this is only specific to my setup
> but I do occassionally (maybe once sometimes twice a month) have an issue
> where a nova-t-500 card will lock up, and I need to power the backend off
> (ie remove power to the machine) and restart and all is well. �A reboot will
> not suffice. �I've never got to the bottom of this - and wonder if anyone
> else has ever seen this issue?
> Cheers,
> Steve.

I also posted regarding this lockup; and I also have to disconnect
power. It understood from another poster (sorry I cant remember who)
that this is known issues and is caused by the VIA PCI to USB
chip/driver. The poster indicated that they will be looking into it to
resolve the issue - it's on their todo list.

R
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Nov 18, 2009, 10:27 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Nicolas Will <nico [at] youplala> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:40 +0000, Steve Curtis wrote:
> > 2009/11/16 Richard Morton <richard.e.morton [at] gmail>
> >
> > > Hauppauge Nova t-500 (pci and dual tuner) or the equivalent
> > hauppauge usb
> > > sticks (you'd need two for two tuners) or anything with the same
> > chipset,
> > > such as technotrend cards.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have two Nova-t-500's in my backend, and they for the most part
> > they work
> > well. Just a warning, and I'm not sure if this is only specific to my
> > setup
> > but I do occassionally (maybe once sometimes twice a month) have an
> > issue
> > where a nova-t-500 card will lock up, and I need to power the backend
> > off
> > (ie remove power to the machine) and restart and all is well. A
> > reboot will
> > not suffice. I've never got to the bottom of this - and wonder if
> > anyone
> > else has ever seen this issue?
> >
> >
>
> Are you just losing a tuner?
>
> If so:
>
>
> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500#Losing_one_tuner.3F
>
> If it is really locking up, sorry, mine doesn't do that.
>
> Nico
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Thanks for that Nico, exactly the issue my Nova T500 has (Myth shows tuner 2
as sleeping, tuner 1 is fine). Was on my list of things to fix, along with
the "card doesn't work on a warm start" (only on "cold") with firmware 1.20.
Similar issue to Richards, but I don't experience lock-ups (yet, quickly
crosses fingers).

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Nov 18, 2009, 10:29 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

I have added it to the Wiki;
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_Issues

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Nov 18, 2009, 10:52 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:27 +0000, hERB wrote:
>
> Thanks for that Nico, exactly the issue my Nova T500 has (Myth shows
> tuner 2
> as sleeping, tuner 1 is fine). Was on my list of things to fix,

Easily done.

> along with
> the "card doesn't work on a warm start" (only on "cold") with firmware
> 1.20.

Devin still has to find a bit of time for this one I guess.

Nico

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:03 AM

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On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:29 +0000, Richard Morton wrote:
> I have added it to the Wiki;
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_Issues

I don't like the wording at all as it is quite misleading.

In general I do not think that pages on the MythTV wiki about TV devices
have any reason for being. They are badly duplicating content that is in
the relevant place, the linuxtv wiki, the place directly linked with the
people working on the drivers, with all the up-to-date information and
with relevant references. If things need tweaking, modifying or
updating, it should be done on the linuxtv wiki.

I am very tempted to replace all the information about TV cards on the
MythTV wiki to simple links to the relevant page on the linuxtv wiki.
However, I do not feel that I should feel empowered to do such a drastic
change.

Opinions are welcomed, naturally.

Nico

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:08 AM

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> I don't like the wording at all as it is quite misleading.

That is a strong statement without indicating in which ways the new
section is misleading.
Many users have reported this issue and it is a known issue with the card.

> In general I do not think that pages on the MythTV wiki about TV devices
> have any reason for being. They are badly duplicating content that is in
> the relevant place, the linuxtv wiki, the place directly linked with the
> people working on the drivers, with all the up-to-date information and
> with relevant references. If things need tweaking, modifying or
> updating, it should be done on the linuxtv wiki.
>
> I am very tempted to replace all the information about TV cards on the
> MythTV wiki to simple links to the relevant page on the linuxtv wiki.
> However, I do not feel that I should feel empowered to do such a drastic
> change.

I wouldnt have too much of a problem with this; but jeez; can we have
some sort of federation so that we dont need yet another username and
password...

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:12 AM

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Nicolas Will <nico [at] youplala> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 18:29 +0000, Richard Morton wrote:
>> I have added it to the Wiki;
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_Issues
>
> I don't like the wording at all as it is quite misleading.
>
> In general I do not think that pages on the MythTV wiki about TV devices
> have any reason for being. They are badly duplicating content that is in
> the relevant place, the linuxtv wiki, the place directly linked with the
> people working on the drivers, with all the up-to-date information and
> with relevant references. If things need tweaking, modifying or
> updating, it should be done on the linuxtv wiki.
>
> I am very tempted to replace all the information about TV cards on the
> MythTV wiki to simple links to the relevant page on the linuxtv wiki.
> However, I do not feel that I should feel empowered to do such a drastic
> change.

I would certainly be in favor of that. It would certainly make my
life easier in not having to continuously monitor both Wikis for the
devices I support (and keep them up to date an in sync). There's
already enough wrong/crappy information out there on various forums.

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:14 AM

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Richard Morton
<richard.e.morton [at] gmail>wrote:

> > I don't like the wording at all as it is quite misleading.
>
> That is a strong statement without indicating in which ways the new
> section is misleading.
> Many users have reported this issue and it is a known issue with the card.
>
> > In general I do not think that pages on the MythTV wiki about TV devices
> > have any reason for being. They are badly duplicating content that is in
> > the relevant place, the linuxtv wiki, the place directly linked with the
> > people working on the drivers, with all the up-to-date information and
> > with relevant references. If things need tweaking, modifying or
> > updating, it should be done on the linuxtv wiki.
> >
> > I am very tempted to replace all the information about TV cards on the
> > MythTV wiki to simple links to the relevant page on the linuxtv wiki.
> > However, I do not feel that I should feel empowered to do such a drastic
> > change.
>
> I wouldnt have too much of a problem with this; but jeez; can we have
> some sort of federation so that we dont need yet another username and
> password...
>
> R
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Well, I was trying to work out a nice way of saying the info is already
there (sort of):

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_Issues
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_issues_2

But probably that just goes to reinforce Nicos point; if the info can be
duped on one page, how much is duped 1) on the wiki as a whole and 2)
between the myth/linuxtv wikis?

Personally, I'd like to see write ups of installation experience, mythtv
gotchas etc on the myth wiki, everything else on the linuxtv. Just my 2p...

/hERB

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:15 AM

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On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:08 +0000, Richard Morton wrote:
> > I don't like the wording at all as it is quite misleading.
>
> That is a strong statement without indicating in which ways the new
> section is misleading.
> Many users have reported this issue and it is a known issue with the
> card.

Well, it is not really a lock-up, for starters.

But my goal was not to be insulting, sorry about that. I really wanted
to lead to my main point about duplication.

Just a question, a bit on the side, wen I replied to the poster, I used
a link to the linuxtv wiki. Why didn't you use it on the mythtv wiki?
That would have avoided reinterpretation.

>
> > In general I do not think that pages on the MythTV wiki about TV
> devices
> > have any reason for being. They are badly duplicating content that
> is in
> > the relevant place, the linuxtv wiki, the place directly linked with
> the
> > people working on the drivers, with all the up-to-date information
> and
> > with relevant references. If things need tweaking, modifying or
> > updating, it should be done on the linuxtv wiki.
> >
> > I am very tempted to replace all the information about TV cards on
> the
> > MythTV wiki to simple links to the relevant page on the linuxtv
> wiki.
> > However, I do not feel that I should feel empowered to do such a
> drastic
> > change.
>
> I wouldnt have too much of a problem with this; but jeez; can we have
> some sort of federation so that we dont need yet another username and
> password...

Good point. Is there an OpenID module (for example) for MediaWiki?

Nico

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:25 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 19:14 +0000, hERB wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to see write ups of installation experience,
> mythtv
> gotchas etc on the myth wiki, everything else on the linuxtv. Just my
> 2p...

That could be a good start.

I try to do that with my own system here:

http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc/

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:26 AM

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On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:12 -0500, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> I would certainly be in favor of that. It would certainly make my
> life easier in not having to continuously monitor both Wikis for the
> devices I support (and keep them up to date an in sync). There's
> already enough wrong/crappy information out there on various forums.

Amen!

;o)

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Nov 18, 2009, 11:38 AM

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> Well, I was trying to work out a nice way of saying the info is already
> there (sort of):
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_Issues
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI#Known_issues_2

how did I miss that; removed / corrected & updated a little.
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Nov 19, 2009, 4:40 AM

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hERB wrote:
> But probably that just goes to reinforce Nicos point; if the info can be
> duped on one page, how much is duped 1) on the wiki as a whole and 2)
> between the myth/linuxtv wikis?

Even worse than duplication is the easy potential for out of date information to remain
after the issue has been fixed or whatever.
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Nov 19, 2009, 8:52 AM

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Re: Recommendation for digital tuner for new mythtv system, UK freeview. [In reply to]

On Wed, November 18, 2009 3:25 pm, Nick Morrott wrote:
>> Hmm sorry to hope on the thread I noticed you can specify max recordings
>> per capture card in mythtv-setup, if one is using the Nova T-500 for
>> instance and there were 4 channels available on each MUX could you in
>> theory set max recordings to 4 for each individual tuner? (I've
>> currently
>> got mine set as 2 max recordings per tuner).
>
> Yes, although please check first with 3 and then 4 simultaneous
> recordings per tuner to check your particular system can cope with the
> added IO/database load.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick

Thanks Nick, I will probably leave it at 2 but its useful to know.

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