I'm thinking about separating my backend from my frontend. They are currently combined, but it gets a little noisy sometimes.<br><br>I found this as a possible frontend ... <a href="http://www.koolu.com/">http://www.koolu.com/
</a><br><br>I searched the list and was quite surprised not to get any hits as it even has a mythtv frontend running in the product demo video.<br><br>Obviously this box won't have the horse-power for playing back HD, but that is not a concern for me at the moment, or indeed for the forseeable future.
<br><br>Is anybody using one of these? The one downside I see is that I use MythDVD as my main DVD player, and this obviously does not have a DVD player in it. I could use an external USB DVD player, does anybody know how well those work under Linux?
<br><br>I'd also have to get some form of USB IR receiver that works with lirc. I have the serial irman right now.<br>