Firstly, I'd just like to say hello. I'm a longtime Linux user from around the Baton Rouge area who just discovered BRLUG.
Secondly, I'd like to comment on MythTV. I use it on Gentoo with a Hauppauge PVR-150 card. If you get one of the Hauppauge cards, you'll need the latest version of the IVTV drivers. (Main site: http://ivtv.sourceforge.net/ - Development site: http://ivtv.no-ip.info) The recognition and support for the PVR-150's, which are pretty new, and the latest generations of the PVR-250's is hit or miss, but they've made great strides in the drivers. I started out with only video and being unable to tune the channel and now have video and audio with excellent quality. As to some of your questions, I know that the Myth people recommend you run it with an LVM setup and use an XFS filesystem for your video storage. CPU requirements depend on whether you do hardware or software encoding. Myth also supports NVidia's hardware XvMC MPEG decoding, but I have found it messes up the OSD. Also if you get a Hauppauge, you need the latest CVS version of lirc to get the included remote to work. Tim
