Well I just got my first real, minor PVR setup going today. I opted for the Hauppage 274-PVR, it was cheap, very cheap even. It ran me 53$ from newegg. there really isn’t much to review… I mean it just worked and does what it’s supposed to, quick install. the card is _tiny_ so I had no problem wedging it under my passively cooled monster of a graphics Card (Biostar Nvidia 7300GT 256mb) IVTV, which comes stop with ubuntu, including the needed firmware picked it up first restart, no self compiling, it just worked. I easily set up the card in MythTV (Selfcompiled from SVN, easy stuff, long build though…) and within minutes I was watching and recording my favorite shows. The picture quality to cost ratio is amazing, I get the quality of standard rips you would see around the net with damned near instant hardware encoding. I have basic non digital cable anyway… so perfect picture was not much of a concern. My only real problem is on gutsy, with the latest nvidia drivers (tried with glx-new as well) and compiz fusion going, running myth frontend crashes X… a but of a pain, but no real bother. I wrote a short script to kill compiz and run metacity, while killing avant, cairo clock, etc. All nicely called /usr/bin/mythprep I’ll finish up with some screens of my myth install.

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If you hadn’t heard we’re going to be going with Tracker for our Meta Search by default spec. I was chatting with a few people on and off about the Tracker Vs. Beagle drama in the past. We basically went with tracker because they implemented fixes for source compilation. If you’re not familiar with the issue, the daemons were crippling source compilation, by checking every time something changed/was made. So they added a delay (Basically, more complex than that, but that’s really what it does) and a few minor bits here and there to stop it from disrupting source compilations. This added to the fact that tracker is TOTALLY light weight having a tiny footprint something on average of 10mb if my sources are correct (not on my machine this second, but I’ve used it in the past.)

You should expect this soon! My question is whether or not we will add on Deskbar by default, which would be a nice touch. As now you have to discover it and add it yourself.

The new version of the former Democracy Player, now known as miro has been officially RELEASED. I’m going to see how it compiled on gutsy compared to the second release candidate, will post again with how and if I could get it to compile.

Still no go on  Gutsy… I got it to compile by using a rather dangerous method, I installed the devel packages of libboost from feisty, which tricked it in to compiling. It however segfaults on run. So I don’t call that a victory.