Ed, I've played around with this a bit as well using a cheap ATI All-In-Wonder card (not recommended). The software used was a collection of projects and some scripts. Bottom line: it is not working like I want yet. I'll probably spring for a better TV card and use one of the HTPC software bundles.
The point I'd like to make is that you should consider the sounds that your PC will make when installed in your media center. With long term usage, I've found that the sound from my fan on my media PC was too annoying, so it is powered off most of the time. You should also consider a shielded sound card, as I've found my AWE-32 card to put out an annoying hum when playing MP3s over my home stereo. Try running a few tests first to evaluate if the PC will be too noisy for you. John On 12/2/05, Richards Jr, Edward C. <ECRichards at fbd.com> wrote: > > Greetings all, > > One of my personal projects for some time has been to build a Home Theatre > PC based on Linux. The first step was to get MythTV up and running. I have > accomplished that on my regular desktop machine and am overall quite > impressed with the capability and the "fit and finish" of this suite of > applications. My next step is to build up a hardware platform that will be a > dedicated machine for the Home Theatre. The hardware pieces that I need are > a DVD-RW, TV cards, a sound card and a video card. I have a mother board, > case, power supply, Athlon XP 2100+, memory, 250 gig hard drive, and NIC. > From having done some research, it seems that the most highly reguarded TV > cards for use with MythTV are the Hauppauge PVR-350 ( > http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html ) and the HD-3000 > ( http://www.pchdtv.com/ ). Since MythTV supports PNP and dual > simultaneous recording, I am planning on getting two TV cards and am > considering either two HD-3000's or one of each. I would be i! > nterested in any experience and/or opinions that listers may have with > regard to these pieces as well as thoughts and recommendations for the other > items. I think that this will eventually become a workshop topic for the > Newbies/CCCC Linux SIG group. > > Ed > > > > > This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of > included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If > you are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on > information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not > or should not be one of the named recipients, please notify sender > accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this message prior to > forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this message or attachments > thereto. For information regarding the export control status of items > discussed in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank > you. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051202/c50910d8/attachment-0001.htm
