Hey guys, i've come a little farther on the DVR road and am in the final planning stages before stating to build, just want to run some things past you all and get some feedback.
The proposed set up is as follows: Computer 1: The DVR. Will be running MythTV. Will get its video feed from the dish box, so I need a tv card for it that has one of those slick IR dealies to control the box. I need a recommendation on a card. Standard def is fine, cheaper is better. Also, anyone have a lead on large IDE drives? gonna need some storage space for shows. I also plan on using this as a router to connect my local net to a wifi hotspot, so I could use a recommendation for a wifi card that works well with linux. The laptop wifi I have is kludged with ndiswrapper and I'd prefer to avoid that. Computer 2: The laptop. Our primary computer and what I hope to use for scheduling duties. I guess I run a Myth front end on this with the backend on the DVR? Not sure quite how that gets set up. Xbox: Modded and running XBMC. I can play music and video from the laptop so I assume I would be able to play video recorded by Myth. Is this a correct assumption? I know the docs say these things should work, but real life is not documented :-) I could go the route of Xebian and Mythtv-xbox, but I had enough troubles getting to the point I'm at that I wanna try what I have first. So, ideas, suggestions, warnings? I'm leaning towards mythbuntu for the dvr itself, any thoughts on that? Thanks guys, and yes, I've read docs, I'm looking for what's not in the docs, your experiences and such. Tyrion -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
