MrSinatra;452343 Wrote: > i know this forum has some of the best and brightest gearheads, so > here's the questions: > > if someone were to wire their house with ethernet wiring, and was > willing to invest in a decent computer, what is the best solution to > record HD TV and serve it via ethernet to TVs in the home? > > i am assuming linux will be the cheapest, both as OS and as PVR app. > > so mythtv? freevo? something else? can i DL an iso, install it, and > be ready to go? (know very little about linux) > > assuming USA, and assuming cable TV, what tuner cards? do they work > with "cable cards?" what about the move from analog cable to digital > cable? > > does the app that records the show, also serve the show out? via upnp? > dlna? other? what client or media adapter do you need on the other > end of the ethernet from the server? > > i know some of you have got something going already, interested to hear > what you think! :)
I currently have a MythTV setup but only for SD. I went with this because of cost and flexibility (when I last checked Windows MCE can't record and then share those recordings over a network in a user-friendly way), but it is a hell of a learning curve (I pretty much knew no Linux when I started). However, there is now Mythbuntu which combines MythTV with Ubuntu and this is probably the easiest MythTV way of getting started, but still be prepared for a lot of reading and frustration. MythTV is split into two parts. The backend which acts as the PVR controlling and hosting recordings. This doesn't have to be too powerful. The frontend is for watching the recordings. However, I use XBMC (using the MythTV protocol) or my Popcorn Hour over Samba to view recordings (Although Myth has UPnP, it is too unreliable for MythTV for me). On Linux, even for HD stuff, frontends don't need to be too powerful these days because of VDPAU. Look out for Ion-based boards (Atom processors with NVidia graphics). That should be a starting point if you decide to go down the Linux route -- david_f1976 Living Room: SB3 -> Musical Fidelity X-DAC V3 -> Marantz PM-66SE --> Tannoy Profile 631SE Bedroom: Boom Dave www.last.fm/user/david_f1976 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ david_f1976's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15354 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67113 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
