User talk:Doudou56
I was looking for away to view my media anywhere in my apartment. I stumble on linuxmce when i google media center. i read about the feature. the fact it was windows make me very happy, btw i'm an avid windows user. I don't know anything about linux. it's been a month 1/2, i'm trying to figured how to make it work properly. it take me so long because i don't play with it everyday. I like to at least put 2 hours aside to test it.
My setup
Hybrid Motherboard: Asus P5GD2-X
CPU: Intel Celeron D core2 3.06Ghz
Memory: 2 - Kingston PC2-5300 1gb DDR2-667 CL5 240PIN DIMM
Video card: ASUS GeForce 9400GT 1GB 128-bit DDR2 PCI-E
Optical drive: LG 8x dvd-+rw
HDD: Seagate 320GB & 500GB - plan to add a NAS storage in the next month
TV tuner: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1250 w/remote control (model: 1201) & Hauppauge Wintv-PVR-150
Router: D-Link wbr1310
Receiver: Sony
Orbiters: Nokia 770 - plan to buy DT366 in the next week
Media director: Dell Inspiron 1521 & Xbox 360 for now - plan to built another PC
My adventure
I followed the instruction of linuxmce installation for the quick install DVD. at the end of the installation the computer reboot to a black screen. i search the site, didn't find anything about it. After many reboot and try several time the What to do if A/V Wizard does not start, i decided to used the dvi port by putting a adapter to my monitor VGA. it works. On the screen i have the house setup wizard. i went thru the setup. first thing i need to fix was my video. I restart my computer to get the A/V wizard. I setup the video properly.
At the time of installation my Wintv-PVR150 wasn't received yet. I received it and installed it. When thru the pluto admin / media director and added it (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/MythTV). in the new capture card in Myth TV, i'm getting an error "cannot open".
Not knowing linux put me in a predicament. I like to understand how things work.
To Do:
Video: after a couple of hours of being on. my video get choppy. it looks like my refresh rate is not working. I tried to change from the lowest to the highest nogo. Trying to find what's the issue. will try a driver update (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Display_Drivers)
WinTV-PVR-150: getting it to work in MythTV. I will followed those to webpage to figured out the issue. there's alot of blah blah on the IVTV website that i don't understand. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_PVR-150 & http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Main_Page
WinTV-HVR-1250: getting it to work in MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1250)
