<br>Ok, so I'm a noob at all this. Now I have tried to do a good deal of reading on the forums and what not trying to get a feel for the recommended hardware etc.<br><br>I'm trying to build a box from scratch, specifically for mythtv. Originally I had planned on getting a Hauppauge
PVR-350 so I could have the MPEG2 decryption on the card. This seemed like the ideal solution and I could get very low end hardware as all the work would be done by the card. However, then I saw various comments about how the card is being phased out, soon to be not supported etc, etc...
<br><br>So I started doing more research and noticed that there are a few small form factor motherboards that have TV-outs and built-in MPEG2 decryption, so I thought maybe that would be a good path, but there didn't seem to be very many folks having used the newer hardware.
<br><br>Anyway, what I'm trying to do is get advice from the experienced folks on here to setup a good solid mythtv system.<br><br>I don't really need dual tuner right now, but might in the future. I don't need HD support and most likely won't in the foreseeable future.
<br><br>So if someone were just going to build a mythtv system and didn't need HD, what would the general best hardware be?<br><br>I'm looking for something that is not going to be crazy difficult to setup as well. So hardware that works well and is well supported would be preferred. That said, I am a pretty solid Linux user and would probably be building this under the latest Ubuntu distro.
<br><br>Any advice would be MUCH appreciated.<br><br>And yes, I apologize for asking what is surely a much too frequently asked question, but I just haven't been able to come to a good conclusion based on what I've read so far in the forums...
<br><br>Joshua<br>