Re: Any project for turning linux into a hd video recorder?

[Mariano Kamp <mkamp@gmx.de>]

Hi,

  first of all thanks to all people responding.

> Was it MythTV? I stumbled on it once too. Looks pretty cool. I'd try it
> if I was into watching TV.
> http://www.mythtv.org/

  Freevo and mythtv look both very cool. I haven't been able to dig up a in 
depth comparison, but used the below mentioned messag to make a first 
judgement and go for mythtv.
  http://lists.snowman.net/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003-May/003496.html

  Two points important to me are 

  a) that currently have the tv card plugged into my firewall as this is the 
only machine which is permanently switched on and has large hdds. 
I know that this is not perfect, but for pragmatic reasons and a very 
restrictive firewall I believe that is ok. 
As a consequence I need to be able to get along with the capturing and serving 
without X11 involved.
On a first look MythTV seems to do the job ... ?!

 b) I'd like to watch german tv (actually I'd like to watch american/english 
tv, but that is not served here). That doesn't seem to be a problem with both 
projects as they both seem to rely on http://membled.com/work/apps/xmltv/.
Btw. At the bottom of the page is a nice listing of projects using xmltv. A 
good start for looking for other projects.

 The first obstacle in installing MythTv is, that I haven't been able to 
install it. I had a look at www.apt-get.org and found 
http://www.apt-get.org/search.php?query=myth&submit=Submit&arch%5B%5D=i386&arch%5B%5D=all. 
But when trying to i apt-get install mythtv it complains missing library 
versions.

# apt-get install mythtv
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mythtv: Depends: mythtv-frontend (= 0.11-1) but it is not going to be 
installed
          Depends: mythtv-backend (= 0.11-1) but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

I'll have a look at the mailing lists.

Cheers,
Mariano