[mdlug] HD-Homerun + MythTV

[R. Kannan]

Hello,

I bought a HD-Homerun Network TV tuner (http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun) and used my laptop + SuSE10.1+MythTV to watch, record and play TV programs.  I also used WindowsXP + TotalMedia software provided by SiliconDust for comparison. I thought I will share my experience from last week.

Firstly, I think the hardware itself is pretty solid and the Linux support is very good. SiliconDust provides configuration files for Linux. With the configuration executable (CLI) you can tune to channel, save the video stream to a file, etc. It seems to work very well. There is also a MythTV forum on their website.

The MythTV backend seems to work pretty well too and handled the recording schedule correctly.

But I was very disappointed with the MythTV frontend. The menus were not very intuitive and would not respond to mouse. A lot of times it was unclear what needed to be done (for example to set up a manual recording). Also, MythTV would not lock on to some channels which TotalMedia had no trouble with. 

MythTV is feature-rich compared to TotalMedia and I am hoping to overcome all problems and use MythTV.

Thanks

Raj K

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