Hi all,
I've recently started to set up a mythtv box for my parents. I've found
a USB DVB-T receiver which works perfectly and I've got the system up
and running on some old hardware.
Now I've been tasked with finding something small that can sit by their
TV and do it all. I've been looking at MiniITX machines with the nVidia
ION chipset that support 720/1080 HD playback and HDMI outputs.
My questions are concerning the digital output and remote controls. I've
only ever used HDMI/digital output on windows and it confuses me then.
Is there some added complexity to getting the HDMI output working
(including audio) with a TV? Is there anything to look out for as far as
compatibiliy goes?
And remote controls, the USB DVB-T unit comes with its own remote and
pretty much works out of the box even on linux. At least it works for
the basic up/down/left/right/enter, I really don't know enough to get
any more out of it.
The MiniITX bundle I'm looking at comes with a remote designed for media
centres and looks to be a million times nicer than the one from the
receiver, but is there going to be a lot of trouble getting it working
with Lirc? I only know a teeny tiny bit about Lirc, I don't know what
driver this remote will use so I don't know if there's likely to be any
compatibility issue.
As you can tell I'm not very hot on this stuff, so any
tips/help/suggestions would be much appreciated. I'd especially
appreciate if anyone could point to some known-good hardware for this
purpose.
Thanks
Matt
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