[mythtv-users] EPIA M10000..

[Kevin J. Slater]

> Finally, easy factor: If you are careful to pick
> motherboards, nics, sound cards (or a motherboard with
> those built in) tuners, and graphics cards carefully they will
> all pretty much just plug and play. And the software is
> pretty easy to install if you carefully follow the docs at
> www.mythtv.org/docs/ and you *read every word*. If you
> don't do enough research (the lists are a good place to
> start) before you buy, you will have to slam your head
> against the biggest hurdles that people seem to run into
> when installing mythtv, namely hardware issues. The four
> biggies seem to be sound cards without full duplex support,
> graphics cards without xv support, tv-out issues (I use and
> external converter that works great) and tuners which auto-
> detect as the wrong type. Look over the lists, pick what
> people have been having good luck with, and go to town.

These sound like really good reasons to describe some sort of
reference hardware platform.  For me, being fairly new to linux,
it would be very helpful to see a list of devices that are as
close to a sure thing as can be.

--davidh