Getting started w/ MythTV

[Paul Lussier]

"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:

> On 11/8/06, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The cost diference between, say,
>> the PVR-150, 250, 300, 500, etc, is the inclusion of hardware based
>> encoders.
>
>   That's what I expected, but it's confusing as hell.  Their marketing
> department needs to work on product differentiation on their website.
> I finally found this:
>
> http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/compare/compare_pvr.html
>
> which explains some things.  The PVR-150 is the same functionality as
> the -250, just with new and cheaper parts.  The -350 adds a
> decoder/TV-out.  The -500 adds a second tuner/encoder (but no
> decoder).

Read the MythTV docs.  It spells out these things pretty clearly.

The one thing I didn't find in there that I would really have liked to
was an architecture diagram displaying the relationships between
Master/Slave backends and front ends with an explanation as to which
tuners get used in which priority, where the database runs, and who
accesses it when/why.

This type of thing may be up on the MythTV site somewhere, I just
haven't found it yet.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul