[LUGSB] Media Centre PC

[Michael Hrivnak]

Unlikely.  They generally have very little storage, and it would take great 
creativity to connect a video capture device.  However, an old crappy 
computer could certainly do the job.  I'm doing HD capturing with mythtv on 
an Athlon XP 1800.

Michael

On Thursday 17 January 2008 7:45:30 am agent fat wrote:
> Would a broadband router suffice for basic streaming.
>
> Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at triad.rr.com> wrote: 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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