Yah - I've been thinking about this too. ATM the EPIA looks good - and via are _trying_ to be linux friendly (just released a hacked xine that allows use of EPIA-Ms hardware mpeg decode) - so an EPIA fanless solution probally isn't far. I've got a friend bringing back a PVR-250 TV capture, hardware MPEG encoder card from the states. Should be a cool project.
Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 19 August 2003 9:47 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MythTV > > > athlon 1133, 512MB RAM, geforce 2 card, running at present > into a 17 inch dell trnintron tube monitor. the capture card > is the cheapie from DSE, it has no tuner, just captures the > composite video output from my sky box. > > I see mythtv has facility for a custom tuner change command. > I guess i need to rig a remote IR sender thru the serial port > and change the sky channel through that. I know there are > various projects for this about the place. > > I am considering, when funds allow, getting a mini-itx > motherboard and slipping it, a power supply, a big hard drive > and a dvd player (recorder???) into an old video recorder > which has died. I am inspired by http://www.mini-itx.com/ :-) > > Anyone know of a 100 watt or more silent (preferably no fan) > power supply? > > A lot of the mini-itx projects use a laptop style power > supply, but they seem to be limited to about 55 W, and it is > said (on above site) that they will not service a full size > cd/dvd drive. slimline drives are wickedly expensive. > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:30:34 +1200 > Brad Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What hardware are you running it on? With a lot of > tweaking on a 1Ghz > > Celeron it was almost OK :) > > > > Brad > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 11:43 p.m. > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: MythTV > > > > > > > > > MythTV is a project for personal tv recorder/player/frontend > > > to your music collection etc. It kicks ass being able to > > > pause and rewind television! I like it so far. > > > > > > More playing tomorrow night if I get time. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >
