[mythtv-users] commercial PVRs for myth?

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

Myth is a PVR.  If you are talking commercial stuff, the 
tivo option is not hackable to run Myth.  Some of the Windows 
MCE boxes can certainly work with Myth.  Actually, I ran across 
this one 

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2900090&cat=SYS

and think I'm going to order one for a combined 
frontend/backend.  So yes, hopefully it will work for 
hacking...

Pretty decent form factor and has all the stuff I need 
for playing DVDs as well as doing capture duties
from a slave backend perspective.  Hard disk is a little 
too small for any kind of real storage, and too big to have just 
an OS partition on, so I imagine that will be coming out 
in favor of a couple of 20gb drives and some 400gb 
drives...

And the modem will be the next thing to come out.

Paul


>>> Dave.Howorth at acm.org 12/22/2004 12:26:55 PM >>>
Greetings,

I'm planning to start digitising my house entertainment using mythtv.

I'm based in the UK and use the Freeview DVB-T transmissions. My main
TV, hi-fi and the antenna are all in my lounge, so I definitely need a
myth box there. I expect I'll also have a main disk server somewhere
else where noise isn't as much of an issue, and smaller boxes located
with other TVs.

So the box in the lounge needs to have a couple of DVB-T tuners and be
able to output video and audio. It should have some processing power
and
  probably will be easier to engineer if it has a bit of disk. If so,
it
should be possible to record to that disk.

That sounds to me like the description of a PVR and it appears I can
buy
a commercial one much more cheaply than trying to assemble one from
parts. Which sounds a bit like the situation with Linux and wi-fi DSL
routers. So do any of the commercially available PVRs come with
standards-based network interfaces? Or has anybody hacked a commercial
PVR to run myth? (like the WRT54G router runs OpenWrt)

Thanks, Dave



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