My home desktop PC has a TV capture card so I thought that I'd give MythTV a go - I tried a couple of years ago, but didn't have the time to really get it working, and it ought to be a piece of cake by now...
After reading a few reviews, I decided to try Mythbuntu as I've been really happy with Ubuntu Linux on my laptop (Acer Travelmate 2420), the only niggle being the lack of BlueTooth support (it ought to work, but doesn't - and hasn't been important enough to spend any time sorting).
My first stumbling block involved disk partitioning - when I installed the new hard disk, I created an enormous 100GB partition for Windows, feeling that the 400GB left would be good for a later Linux installation. Letting the installer decide what to do resized the partition to the full size of the disk. After restarting the installation, I was able to use the slider control to tell Mythbuntu to use 400GB.
The rest of the installation was painless up until the MythTV setup as I cannot find any instructions for analogue cards in the UK and I've been unable to resize the screen - Xfce desktop has chosen a resolution that's so crazy I'm missing bits of the menus as they go off the screen to the right and bottom. After a few minutes digging around, I found the option to choose between this resolution or an even bigger one !
All in all, I've decided to follow Garry Parker's advice and install Ubuntu and then add the MythTV package.
It will work.
To be continued...
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