Found a fairly comprehensive HTPC (TV) howto. http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/
Worth reading as he talks a lot about power supplies, harddrive reliability and other stuff that I found interesting. He seems to have destroyed more hardware than I have owned. Suggests 1Ghz to record and 2Ghz (3Ghz recommended) to playback. Standard TV is a lot less 1Ghz seems OK. Talks about Pentium Vs AMD and recommends Pentium, AMD tends to bottleneck a little. Luckily my spare is a Pentium. 4Gb per show on the harddrive. He also recommends that you leave you main harddrive non-LVM andset up the rest as LVM with as much harddisk as you can get. For noise and heat reasons the larger the HD the better. I am still reading, interesting stuff. Remotes the keyword seems to be lirc (Linux Infrared Control). Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
