so I tried putting together a media server earlier in the year (late last year?) and never quite got it going. Now, it’s up and running. I fragged the previous build and installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) and all the issues I had previously run into pretty much were just handled naturally. I had only one problem when I followed the community setup guide and that was that somehow I missed the significance of the Channel Frequency table selection… so when I started recording things, all I got was static and the server only recognized the VHF channels (2-13). Thankfully, I wasn’t the first to have an issue like this so I googled and found a discussion on what to do when you only see local channels. ‘us-cable’ is your friend!
Now, we’re recording. Next, remote playback on a small, wife-acceptable device.
