[mythtv-users] Taking the MythTV plunge

[Roman Romaniuk]

Hi All,

I'm about to take the MythTV plunge. Current plan is to use a MSI Mega 
PC 180 w/ a AMD 3K XP processor, 1G Ram and 120G hard disk local to the 
PC. Additional storage will be provided by a file server.

Satellite board is the SkyStar 2 DVB board. Initially I'm going to use 
the on-board nForce2 for TV out - but will probably migrate to a proper 
Video card with hardware MPEG 2 in the future.

Any comments on the hardware? Anything you'd do differently?

Which distro do people recommend? I've got a fair bit of experience as 
far as Linux goes - but most of it is in the embedded space.

What are the trade offs as far as MythTV goes?

Thanks,


Roman