[mythtv-users] Planning a new MythTV setup, one boring question, one really off the wall question

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
> The $200 Acer Revos seem to work well as frontends for many on the list. I'm
> planning to buy one for the bedroom. Small, quiet, low power, can play HD
> content. The decoder cards for the AppleTV aren't supported in Myth yet,
> though they probably will be in the future.

If you are planning to get a revo, my 2 do work good, but the US
version (while not voiding the warranty to open) do not include
internal antennas for the mini pci-e slot.  If you are getting
wireless to put in them, be sure and buy some antennas with them.
Also, you must invest in at least 512 more ram, so the price goes up a
bit.  They do work rather well though.

-Greg

> For the very remote backend, that's an interesting question. I'd use OpenVPN
> to link them up, but Myth seems to be kind of set up expecting to be able to
> stream in real time from the secondary BEs. I'm not sure how it will handle
> having that BE on a WAN link. You might be able to use the rename script and
> mirror the files over to a local server then use MythVideo to play them. The
> interface isn't quite as nice for TV type programs, but with .22 and
> metadata downloading it works pretty good for me.
>
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