I’ve got the TV tuner card working now and I can watch TV live. Unfortunately I’m only picking up channels 3-98 and I know I have more up there.
Probably something to do with it being “digital” cable. Not sure yet.
I don’t have audio kicking out yet, either, while watching live TV. I can get audio watching a ripped DVD, however.
Progress is good.
Girlfriend is going to kick my ass for staying up this late playing with tech toys, though.
I got a bug up my butt the other night and dusted off a PC designed to be used as a media center box. The OS was hosed so I slapped Ubuntu Linux on it and installed MythTV on it.
MythTV pretty much turns your Linux PC into a TiVo on steroids. I’ve never actually messed with the TV recording abilities as the last time I tried this my TV tuner card wasn’t supported, and I was hell-bent on using Debian which tends to lack in the department of recently released software.
I did get the DVD ripping stuff installed today and I’m currently ripping Team America: World Police as a test case.
I still need to wire up the TV tuner and get the output of the media PC to jack into my TV for playback, but we’re partly there.
Hopefully the worst part is done.
I’ll let you know how this goes.