MythTV Here I Come
Based on what I saw at a friend's house last Friday I had to get a system put together for MythTV. I plan on using it right now for all of the girls movies (No more scratched DVDs!!) but who knows what all I'll do with it. Digital TV over the air comes to mind. Here is a list of compoents. Thanks to Jon Hall for helping me put it together.
- CASE IN-WIN|IW-BT611T.300SL
- MB ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI AM2 GF8200
- CPU AMD|A64 X2 4850E 2.5G AM2
- DVD BURN LITE-ON|DH-20A4P-04 20X
- MEM 1Gx2|G.SK F2-6400CL5D-2GBNQ
- 750GB Caviar Greenpower Sata II 3.5IN
What do you think? Does anyone out there MythTV?? I'm excited!!
Good Day!
Ryan
Jon Hall said:
GBPVR has really grown up since I last looked at it! I still stick with mythTV, cause it is what I know, and I like the different modules and the wealth of knowledge available. If you want to go the pay route you can also look at sageTV.
I am now officially jealous of your build, I am sure we will be chatting more when you get it all built! Next stop, home theater =P
I am now officially jealous of your build, I am sure we will be chatting more when you get it all built! Next stop, home theater =P
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ev said:
Thanks Jon! What do you think about that hard drive? Most of the reviews on the Green Power hard drives are pretty good. Plus 750gb can't be wrong!
Dave Shuck said:
Ryan, not sure if you know this already, but there is an Ubuntu version called Mythbuntu that is tooled specifically for this task:
http://www.mythbuntu.com/
http://www.mythbuntu.com/
Aaron Lynch said:
Ryan, I have built myself a MythTV machine not that long ago.
Did you decide on a vid capture card yet?
Did you decide on a vid capture card yet?
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ev said:
Aaron, still very much up in the air on this item. Which one did you get? I've heard the pcHDTV? HD-3000 Hi Definition Television Card was a good one.
Adam Mesenbrink said:
Tell Jon "hi" for me. We need to start a Myth users group...
Here's a video I made about Mythbuntu. I highly recommend it. youtube.com/watch?v=b-yNCqj_MXs
See the comments for my build specs.
Here's a video I made about Mythbuntu. I highly recommend it. youtube.com/watch?v=b-yNCqj_MXs
See the comments for my build specs.
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ev said:
Jon told me about your video yesterday. I will check it out. Thanks Adam! I'm excited to get my gear thats for sure, 750 gb of goodness coming my way!
Richard Davies said:
I'm interested in hearing how it works out for you. I've been using an old PC as a MythTV box for a while now, but might be interested in upgrading to a smaller form factor some day. So let us know how your hardware choices work out.
ev said:
WOOT!!! Just logged into Newegg.com and saw this...
Status: Shipped - Your order has shipped. You may view your tracking information by clicking the applicable Order Number above. However, your tracking number may not appear immediately as the shipping couriers update only periodically. Your tracking number(s) will also be sent via e-mail to your Newegg.com login.
Status: Shipped - Your order has shipped. You may view your tracking information by clicking the applicable Order Number above. However, your tracking number may not appear immediately as the shipping couriers update only periodically. Your tracking number(s) will also be sent via e-mail to your Newegg.com login.
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Adam Mesenbrink said:
Cool, That system should work well. My HD died before I moved so I just reloaded Mythbuntu 8.4.1. It's very easy way to get started. Once it was up and running all the windows machines in my house reported "There is a media server on the network do you want to share media". Very Nice. I would make sure you check the hardware compatiblity lists at mythbuntu.org and mythtv.org before you order a tuner card. Another thing you should check out is a plugin called MythNetTV which will download video podcasts and transcode them so they show up like recorded TV shows on MythTV. http://www.stillhq.com/mythtv/mythnettv/000008.htm...
Have fun, and feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.
Have fun, and feel free to hit me up if you have any questions.
Jon Hall said:
Adam sent me this link: http://revision3.com/systm/bmwt/ If you haven't watched any Revision3 shows, you need to, but the point of this one was mythTV.
ev said:
All my stuff from Newegg is in transit!!! To be delivered on the 29th. WOO HOOO... now about that 750gb hard drive that I bought from Amazon....
ev said:
Hmmm Amazon hasn't even charged my CC yet for my harddrive. I bought it from one of their resellers.... might have been a bad idea. I was hoping to build it over the weekend.
ev said:
So I got a note from Amazon the reseller has shipped my harddrive, should be here on Friday as well. I also dug a little deeper into the reseller who was listed as BuyNow. It turns out BuyNow is buy.com. Does that seem weird to you? It's like Target reselling in a WalMart store to me.
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