[ale] semi OT: ideas about building a PVR/XPC

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Mar 5 14:29:26 EST 2003


I've come to the conclusion that the onboard sound that most
motherboards (Amptron) provide just suck. Anyone else think the same?





On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:32, Keith R. Watson wrote:
> At 04:06 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hey all,
> >
> >I am planning on building a PVR ( Personal video recorder - like Tivo ), an
> >XPC ( Multimedia entertainment PC that will hockup to my TV and home
> >theater ), or some sort of combination.
> >
> >I have thought of two basic choices for this attempt.
> >
> >1. Buy an Xbox, hack it and install Xbox linux on it ( roughly around $300 )
> >
> >or
> >
> >2. Build an XPC using current high end PC hardware  ( roughly around $1700 )
> >
> >The Xbox idea is cheap but not very upgradable. The XPC idea is more
> >expensive but also more upgradable and mroe useful.
> >
> >Have any of you guys ever built anything like this? Have any suggestions
> >like recommeneded hadrware? software? OS? stuff like that?
> >
> >I would really appreciate some input as I have just started seriously
> >thinking about this.
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Lance
> 
> Lance,
> 
> I got to the party late, but I brought goodies.
> 
> 
> MythTV
> http://www.mythtv.org/
> 
> Dream-Multimedia-TV
> http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/cat_eng/
> 
> eBox
> http://www.bluelightning.org/ebox/
> 
> Freevo
> http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Building a Linux-based time-shifting box
> http://www.linuxprofessionalsolutions.com/pavlicek/tv.html
> 
> Video Disk Recorder
> http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/
> 
> keith
> -------------
> 
> Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
> Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
> keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
> 404-894-0836
> 
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