i finally gave up on getting the sa4250HDC to play nice with mythtv and traded it in for a sa3250HD. downgrading boxes i do lose hdmi out from the cable stb… but component works just fine. after connecting everything up, all i had to do was clear my inputs in mythtv and re-add them. firewire capture is working! muahaha!

changing channels via firewire is wonky, mythtv does change the channel of the stb but not properly. instead of hunting it down in mythbuntu 8.04 i’m going to re-install 7.10 and start clean from there. i think i’m also going to switch from the firefly remote to a mce remote for the time being too. i’m slowly gathering tons of hdtv/mythtv hardware.. atleast i don’t have to play with an ir blaster anymore.

i’m trying to find a smaller stb (set top box) to run mythtv. the mythtv wiki has a pretty good comparison of current mythtv frontend options… i’m going to have to sit down and look at the pros/cons of each. i’m planning on rolling up atleast 2 more mythtv frontends and i really want the smallest/quietest setup i can get.

i also need to figure out what to do about setting up a seperate network for all the media traffic that i’ll have between the frontends and backends, wifi just won’t cut it and i really don’t feel like running cat5 through my walls. linksys has some new powerline networking boxes that can supposedly pump up to 200mb over your existing internal power lines. i also have some spare coax running through the walls, i wonder what the current state of bnc networking is? i’m gonna feel silly if i use a 10base-2 network though. i remember trying to debug 10base-2 lans back when i used to go to lan parties (yeah… that long ago) then again, 10mb/s isn’t any improvement over 802.11g wireless.