<div dir="ltr">I built my first MythTV system a few weeks ago on top of a fanless Intel D201GLY2 mobo and I'm quite happy with it.<br><br>ITX<br>=> This is mini-ITX but fits in ITX cases<br><br>
fanless<br>=> I run it TOTALY Fanless in an "homemade opencase"... Just hear the silence. The power supply is a pico-PSU.<br><br>
diskless<br>=> I run with my OS on a Samsung 2.5" SATA and a big fat 3.5" IDE drive. I do spin down the drives using laptop-mode. The big drive will spin up only when I'm reading a divx or looking at my photo album.<br>
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SD only<br>=> I do use a PVR-150 to record SD. I plan to try DVBS-2.<br><br>
TV out (S-VIDEO will do)<br>=> Mine is a D201GLY2. If you need S-Video, look after D201GLY2T.<br>The D201GLY2TA is a third one with active cooling so be careful at what you choose.<br><br>
Smooth operation<br>=> I'm just amazed to be able to record a show while transcoding a DVD to DivX and watching at the same time another DivX !!! All is so well managed by mythtv !!! <br>
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I'm NOT bothered at the moment about:<br>
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HD<br>=> I think this won't be powerfull enought but this would be useless if you plan to use an s-video cnx.<br><br>3D Visualisation<br>=> The stock sis driver does not work. There is nevertheless drivers working fine with 2D acceleration.<br>
<a href="http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/WikiBerd/index.php?page=LinuxSis67x">http://ncc-1701a.homelinux.net/WikiBerd/index.php?page=LinuxSis67x</a><br><br>I point that was annoying is the fact that there is only one PCI slot available. I found people reporting successful use of an active pce riser cage to get a second PCI slot.<br>
<br>I wish you a nice hunting.<br>Make 100% sure your components will all be supported by the distribution you choose.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Pierre<br>
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