The Mini-ITX Linux PVR Project 223
An anonymous reader writes "Home theater PCs have taken many shapes and forms, perhaps none more interesting than this Mini-ITX PVR. In part three of its Mini-ITX project, XYZ Computing has turned its Mini-ITX box into a Linux PVR, using Ubuntu and MythTV. This is a lot of computer in a very small package and designing it, putting it together, and then getting it to work was an interesting process. The article is a great guide for people who are interested in their own Mini-ITX Linux PVR, but also goes over the problems and pitfalls of a build like this."
Alternative (Score:3, Insightful)
Here's a (slightly more expensive) alternative for non-geeks:
1. Buy a Mac Mini
2. Plug a USB2 or Firewire tuner and the Keyspan USB remote sensor into it.
3. Install EyeTV software & Keyspan remote software (both included with the hardware.)
4. Set up your universal remote (your TV and/or receiver remote might be a programmable one. Otherwise there are plenty out there to choose from for about twenty bucks) to control both the TV tuner and all your Mac media apps.
Done.
General Problem with this approach (Score:1, Insightful)
I may be mistaken... (Score:2, Insightful)
Don't get me wrong, the article's a good one, but it seems like the focus of the summary is "They have MythTV on MiniITX now" - haven't we been doing this for months, if not years?
Go LAN young man. (Score:1, Insightful)