[mythtv-users] Cheap and quiet hardware for SD MythTV - possible?

[Gordon McCrae]

Stroller wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My mum's Freeview box has just died - since a replacement is £30, I
> started thinking about a PVR instead. Off the shelf ones are £80 to
> £100 and this naturally started me thinking about MythTV, but I'm a
> bit stumped on how to do MythTV without doubling the price.
>
> I'm seeing £211 for an Asus Eee PC 900A, £195 for an Apple TV, a local
> supplier does Atom-based motherboards (inc CPU, AIUI) for £60 inc VAT,
> but then I can't see affordable cases to go with them.
>
> I haven't been following MythTV in a couple of years, so I guess I was
> kinda hoping there'd be competitive options for a set-top-box by now.
> Either an Atom-based PC, or a MythTV-friendly Linux distro shoehorned
> onto a regular set-top-box, or something like the Neuros OSD. My
> Googling isn't coming up with much suitable - it's kinda a shame the
> hardware options don't seem to have improved much in the last couple
> of years [1]. Or am I missing something?
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received,
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
> [1] I don't mean to criticise MythTV when I say that.
>
Try the Acer Aspire REVO.

I bought one from play.com and it's now happily running MythDora.

£149.99

My only issue is that I'd prefer to be running openSuSE on it, but have
problems with both the network card and sound chipset on 11.1 (solved in
11.2, but no packages for MythTV for 11.2 yet).

Really nice little box, I have it starting MythTV on VT7, with a X login
screen on VT8 in case I need to check email / browse the web.

Cheers
Gordon