[mythtv-users] PVR Project for beginner

[imlinux at consultingp.com]

Not to scare you off or anything but its a little bit of work even for
someone with Linux experience.  I still spend lots of time working on it
and playing around with it and tweaking it.  Messing around with the
configurations after you've gotten everything working is half the fun.
Even though it gets tricky sometimes it's  worth every minute of it.  I
haven't looked at what hardware your  considering using but I'd double
check and make sure that all of the  hardware is supported properly.  I'm
using the EPIA-M stuff and a PVR-250, the driver setup for this hardware
isn't exactly a walk in the park.  But if your looking to learn about
linux and just need something to work on this is something that will help
you learn a bit of this and a bit of that of the linux world.

	-Mike




On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Jared Farnum wrote:

> I am wanting to build a PVR computer but do not have any linux experience, I do however have a brother who has done software development projects for linux :-), I rather keep my questions to him at a minimum. The area I am wanting to put this pc is very small, so the computer needs a small case.
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> AMD Athlon® XP 2400+ Thoroughbred Bare CPU W/Shuttle SK41G BareBone
> http://shop1.outpost.com/product/3651815
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> and I already have a Matrox G200 TV card and am hoping to use that.
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> My question is how easy is how easy or how much of a challenge is this system going to be for a beginner? Is the above configuration a good one? What else should I know before taking on this project?
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> Thanks
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