On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com
wrote:
On 28/02/2011 22:06, Hamilton Silva wrote:
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Matt Harrison
iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com
wrote:
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
For the remote i suggest the ps3 bd controller. It uses bluetooth so,
it's
omnidirectional and works with mythtv:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote
Hamilton
That looks interesting, thanks for the reply. I guess I'll have to find a
bluetooth receiver to go with it, maybe i can find one onboard something.
Thanks
You can find some bluetooth usb dongle for about $2-4 at dealextreme or
ebay.
Hamilton
