MythTV tidbits

From ThisBlueWiki

Alternatives

• Perian for viewing XviD et al in Front Row
• Mac Mini with Front Row
• EyeTV plus Front Row plugin.

Hardware

• EPIA SP8000 fanless? supports TV out with kernel patch (2.6 no patch?), hardware MPEG2 decode, hardware MPEG4 acceleration - $411 with fanless case, 256MB PC2700 from iDotPC
  • thread
• Hauppage WinTV PVR150MCE for capture - $71 shipped
• Samsung Spinpoint SP1213N 120GB 8MB cache AAM ATA133 - $72
• save to datacube over network or local disk

Software

• GeeXboX
• epiOS kernel config
• epiacenter divx on SP8000E search
• MythExtra - including MythFM

Links

• http://linpvr.org/ - diskless MythTV frontend on EPIA M boards - no mythgame :(
• http://www.pvrguide.no-ip.com/bbs/lofiversion/index.php?t4516.html

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