[mythtv-users] ouple of question relating to setting up a MythTV box

[Tim Hempstead]

Hi,  I'm considering setting up a MythTV box on my lan to act as a 
PVR. It will be required to record shows, (as a PVR does!), which can 
then either be watched on the machines monitor or transferred to 
VCD/DVD for watching on my telly, (i.e. TV out from the machine is 
NOT a requirement).

The machine I'm thinking of using is a Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb 
memory, a GF4 MX4?? and a Hauppauge PVR350.

Couple of questions though:
1).  Whats the best distrbution to use with MythTV.  I currently run 
SuSE on my machines but I'm not rabid about using that in particular, 
(although if it works that would be nice).  I am aware that with 
Fedora I ould need to build a generic kernel to allow the Nvidia 
drivers to work.

2).  Are theer any other "pitfalls" which I am likely to come across?

Many thanks

Tim



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