[LUGSB] Media Centre PC

[Michael Hrivnak]

Mythtv has a backend (recording and storage) and frontend (watching).  They 
can both run on the same machine, or you can use the frontend on a separate 
machine.  If you'd doing HD with it, streaming will cost you about 55Mbps, so 
plan for bandwidth.

Mythbuntu is a fine distribution to use.  http://www.mythbuntu.org/  I haven't 
used it directly, but I run mythv on two Ubuntu boxes with much satisfaction.  
There is much documentation to be found on getting it going.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV

I have also heard of a Mythdora distribution, but I have no experience with 
it.

Michael


On Tuesday 15 January 2008 2:07:33 pm agent fat wrote:
> So I'm trying to set up a media center PC and am still trying to decide
> between Windows Home server and a linux solution.
>
> I recently built a new pc and want to turn my older pc into a linux server.
> I aslo want to connect my tv tuner card to the linux pc so I can store all
> my files and the like on it and at the same time be able to stream live tv
> from that linux box unto my newer pc, and so far do not know if any such
> solutions exist on linux.
>
> So far I've heard that MythTV is the best solution. Would it allow me to
> stream live tv to my other pc.
>
> If MythTV is the solution, how easy is it to setup(Im novice linux user).
>
>
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