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Consider yourself warned. Making fun of the mantra "GoSox" a second time will require you to reside in Chelsea for a period not less than 90 days.

It took me two years to get mythtv working, but it was well worth it. Wait another few years and everything will be on youtube in HD anyway. :)

Which distribution of Linux are you using for your attempted MythTV box? I found that I couldn't get MythTV running under Fedora Core, but when I switched to Ubuntu and downloaded the packages with their package manager, it worked fine and with a minimum of pain.

Then a lightning strike blew up my computer, and I replaced it with an HD Home Run (I was using MythTV and the now-dead Linux box mainly for digital TV). And HD Home Run works with EyeTV on my Mac, so I don't bother with MythTV any more.

I spent most of my time trying to get KnoppMyth to work. A few months ago, I switched to Ubuntu and did as you did. I can get it to switch channels using the firewire connector to my Motorola cable box, but I can't reliably get video in and have never succeeded in getting viewable video out. And now, of course, we've lost the old source of free listings, and I haven't figure out how to get the new one. But that's probably the least of it.

I can't remember at this point why I gave up on the IRC blaster approach, although it might have had something to do with failing to get video in from the cable through the usual cable out.