On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Tyrion wrote:
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.
Hauppauge PVR-150. Might be a little hard to find in retail since I
don't think they're allowed to sell analog cards any more, but chances
are a used one can be found cheap on eBay.
Also, anyone have a lead on large IDE drives?
IDE is old news, you'll want SATA. (Unless you already have the
motherboard and it's IDE only). Hard drives are really a commodity,
but for PVR duty you want large and quiet. Western Digital has a line
specifically aimed at being low power and noise, and any of Seagate's
7200.xx series are also quite good and quiet. 500-750GB is pretty
much the $/GB sweet spot now.
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.
Scheduling duties can all be done through the MythWeb interface that
you'll likely have running on the backend. You'd only need a frontend
on the laptop if you intend to watch recorded programs with it. If
that's the case, then yes - you'll have a frontend that connects to
your backend PVR and its MySQL database.
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?
MythTV records in MPEG2, so yes XBMC should in theory be able to play
it... but you'll have some strange filenames to deal with if you're
not going through the Myth frontend. There may be better solutions,
I'm really not sure...
I'm leaning towards mythbuntu for the dvr itself, any thoughts on
that?
Mythbuntu is great.
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