[mythtv-users] Myth TV media extenders?

James Neave JNeave at spursolutions.com
Tue Apr 4 13:23:26 UTC 2006


Hi,

What about a mini-itx based box?
That's what I'm planning to build.
A 600MHz machine with MPEG2 acceleration is dirt cheap at the moment, no more than £250 for everything I think.

The DVB-T tuners that I'm planning to use come with USB IR receiver and a controller, works with my kernel (2.6.12-10) and I'm planning on getting two more (=3), building a server with them and using the controllers on slim-client front ends.

Which are TwinHan Ter VP-3021's.

Right now I have my main machine with one tuner and I just got live tv working, so this is work in progress.

Once I've learnt mythtv and got my one box working, I'm going to invest in the mini-itx client.

Some of the VIA mini-itx machine come with onboard Flash2IDE adapters, I'm thinking knoppmyth if it supports the hardware.

The TwinHans claim to be HDTV DVB cards up to 1080i. I'm just using them for UK DVB-T at PAL res though.

Regards,

Jim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Vidican [mailto:mythtv at envieweb.net] 
Sent: 04 April 2006 14:06
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Subject: [SPAM] - [mythtv-users] Myth TV media extenders? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

Similar to Windows Media Extenders; ie Linksys unit, X-Box 360's, etc, and
similar to cheaper alternatives; is there anything one can do for a
mythtv-extender like?

Essentially, a bare-bones mythfrontend-driven box with a remote control to
attach to a TV. The cheaper the better, so long as it works... the idea being
one large mythtv backend 'server' and a frontend box on each tv in the
household, will be using Hauppauge PVR-500's for input from three dishnetwork
satellite receivers, and am looking to possibly add a fourth card for local
HDTV/SD-DTV signals.

While I'm at it, any suggestions as to a good HDTV tuner board? Will be going
into an (possibly) a Quad Xeon 550/2mb machine, with 4GB ram and 6 15,000RPM
SCSI U160 disks... assuming this machine will be adequate given that I/O will
most likely be the biggest bottleneck. I might also look to using a single
3200 Athlon as a backend box with 10,000rpm s-ata disks in an array. Any thoughts?

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Nathan Vidican
nathan at vidican.com
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