Rich G on 23 Sep 2006 03:10:01 -0000 |
I am building one now. I am using SuSe SLED. KnoppMyth is ok for an out-of-the-box or shrinkwrap type install. There is a book that came out in the past month - Hacking MythTV. Barnes & Noble carries it. I bought the Silverstone case (LC-14M) and am using an ASUS MB. For tuner cards - I have two pcHDTV HD-3000 and one Hauppage PVR-350. I planned on putting the front & backend on the same box. I'm rethinking this now... The options can be overwhelming. Start off with just the basic Myth and initial plugins. Getting a remote and advanced PVR is enough to start with. As for buying in/near Philly, I bought everything online - no car needed. Microcenter is ok but that is only if you really need/want the brick-n-mortar feeling. Rich On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 20:37 -0400, plug.20.chth@xoxy.net wrote: > Hi there! > > Has anybody here recently set up a Myth TV box? I just moved to the south-west > side of center city and am planing to set one up at my place. I'm a bit > overwhelmed by all the options (especially but not only on the hardware side) > and would like to take a look at other peoples' setups. I saw the slides to > the Myth TV presentation at a past PLUG meeting. I'd like to custom build the > computer, install Kubuntu on it and then put Myth TV on it to serve as both a > server for other frontends on the network but also a frontend. Also, is there > a good computer hardware store that can be reached from Philly without a car? > (If not, what's the clostest computer hardware store you can recommend?) > > I currently have Comcast cable for TV and high-speed internet, but am > wondering if there might be better options (so far I've only identified > Verizon and Speakeasy DSL as possible internet alternatives). I'd appreciate > hearing your experiences. I've also read on some of the Myth TV > documentations that with the right satellite setup one can receive quite a > few unencrypted (international) channels. Does anybody here have any > experience with that? > > Thanks, > Christoph > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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