Media Centre Question

[GarethDW]

I'm thinking again about building a media centre using either MythTV or LinuxMCE. However, I've got a noob question about setting it up that hopefully someone can help with.

Currently I've got my Sky digibox, VCR, DVD player and Wii all hooked up to a scart selector box thingy. Would I just change the digibox so that instead of hooking it up to the scart selector I plug that into the "video in" on the PC, and then plug the "video out" into the scart selector? Or have I misunderstood something...?

Cheers.

 

[GarethDW]

Yep, limited by no. of scart sockets both on the telly and the scart box - one on each, although I could ditch the VCR as I've not watched a video for years, to be honest.

I'm only really interested in recording from Sky, in a PVR kinda way.

So now you have it as:
Devices -> SCART box -> TV
right?

With Myth I'm not sure you'd want to capture the output from anything but your Sky box.
You'd attach the Sky box to Myth via firewire or some other form of video in. Then you'd pipe the video out from Myth to the SCART box. Leave the Wii and other devices out of the equation.

BTW, since we're on the subject, I recommend Mythbuntu highly. It's powerful and pretty easy. There're plenty of tweaks you can make as well.

Yeah, exactly like that, mate. All plug into the scart box, and then I can switch between whichever source I want to watch.

Hadn't thought about using Firewire... will look into that.

Will definitely look into Mythbuntu

 

[GarethDW]

On a related note, are the Hauppage PVR 350 cards still a good choice for this kind of setup?

 

[GarethDW]

Sorry, I ninja edited it... I meant the 350, cause I can't find anywhere that sells the 250 any more. Nice link though... that site has info on the 350 too