Let’s talk about Myth baby, let’s talk about you and me
With apologies to everyone who is reminded of the Salt and Pepa song this title was inspired by, although it's damn hard to find lyric sites which don't do evil things like redirecting you to a page you can't escape from with the back button, or pop up ads. How mid-nineties! Since I moved to the US, I've been using MythTV instead of my previous TiVo setup, and I am mighty happy. I thought that perhaps I should write some of that experience up, so here we go... Let's start my talking about the TV capture card I picked. I purchased a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 Personal Video Recorder from Amazon for a little over $100 US. I picked this card because of the hardware MPEG encoder, the hardware decoder, and the remote control. Perhaps in hindsight I should have gone for the WinTV 500, which has two tuners for simultaneous recording but no remote, but I don't generally need to record more than one thing at once -- especially given how often things are repeated over here. I can't find a link to the WinTV 500 at the moment, but here is one to the WinTV PVR 500 media…