<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>This is all good info Chris. Thanks.</DIV> <DIV>Two things I failed to ask is what type of remote do you use and does MythTV have all those tricky things as found on a commercial DVR such as the record and view the same show function (after you have used the pause function to go and get a beer from the fridge). I don't know the name of the function but it allows you to catch up to the current time in the game / show (I think by using the time in the add's). </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 13px; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> <HR SIZE=1> From: Chris Debenham <chris@adebenham.com> To: bryn mitchell <bryn@mitchells.id.au> Cc: ubuntu-au <ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Mon, 19 April, 2010 8:12:38 AM Subject: Re: media centre build On 18 April 2010 21:57, bryn mitchell <<A href="mailto:bryn_mitchell@yahoo.com.au" ymailto="mailto:bryn_mitchell@yahoo.com.au">bryn_mitchell@yahoo.com.au</A>> wrote: > Thanks Chris. > What OS and Multi Media applications do you use. I run MythTV on mythbuntu (<A href="http://mythbuntu.org/" target=_blank>http://mythbuntu.org/</A>) > Do you; * access the Internet - yes - via mythnet * burn media (such as TV shows) to DVD - yes, via 'mythBurn' which integrates into mythtv * rip to MP3 - yes, mythtv can do this natively as well * view photo's - yes * edit home video - no, I do video editing on a different machine generally (one connected to a keyboard/mouse instead of just a remote control) but there is nothing precluding doing video editing on this machine as it is faster than my actual desktop anyway :-) > Do you use a wireless network connection and if so what brand of card/USB (I assume it's USB). I actually use wired gigabit ethernet (since I store most of my media on a separate machine) but as long as you are not streaming high-def content over the network then wireless is fine. I actually do stream standard-def over wireless to my laptop on occassion and it works fine. > > ________________________________ > From: Chris Debenham <<A href="mailto:chris@adebenham.com" ymailto="mailto:chris@adebenham.com">chris@adebenham.com</A>> > To: bryn mitchell <<A href="mailto:bryn@mitchells.id.au" ymailto="mailto:bryn@mitchells.id.au">bryn@mitchells.id.au</A>> > Cc: <A href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</A> > Sent: Sun, 18 April, 2010 6:20:55 PM > Subject: Re: media centre build > > I use an ASRock ION 330 for media centre duties (replacing a mac mini) > Costs about $350 - just add disk and a usb tuner or two and you have a > decent machine capable of playing High Def media via HDMI (I can play > 1080p without too much issue - generally about 40% cpu usage when > playing HD stuff - less for over-the-air HD stuff) > It only takes one internal disk, but add an external drive if you need > more space. > > On 18 April 2010 06:24, bryn mitchell <<A href="mailto:bryn_mitchell@yahoo.com.au" ymailto="mailto:bryn_mitchell@yahoo.com.au">bryn_mitchell@yahoo.com.au</A>> wrote: >> >> I am going to get / build a media centre. I could buy a MAC Mini which >> seems >> just about ready to go out of the box or I could go thru the project of a >> Linux equivalent. >> I want to access the net, rip and play (thru a sound system) music, record >> and replay digital TV, play DVD's / Blue Ray, etc thru a Panasonic Viera >> wide screen plasma. >> This is something I would be happy to spend a couple of weeks on and off >> to >> complete but not a couple of months to get right. It also needs to work >> right every time or it will fall flat with the missus and kids. >> I have done some reading about Myth TV and it's variants and other >> applications such as Boxee and XBMC but my real sticking point is >> hardware. >> I got a quote from a local shop to build a box that would suit Win 7 and I >> assume that would also be adequate for a Linux equivalent but the cost was >> about $2500, about $1000 more expensive than a MAC Mini solution. For me, >> the real seller of a Linux system would be to do it on the cheap but as I >> said before I don't want to spend all my time (I am time poor) buying >> hardware and then buying more hardware because it doesn't work or >> endlessly >> trouble shooting a dodgy set up. >> Ideally I think my best scenario would be to buy a used PC and just add >> appropriate hardware such as a tuner card, graphics card etc but I don't >> know what to buy (or for that matter where to buy). Also fan noise etc is >> any issue I believe. >> Interested in any opinions, >> >> Regards. >> B. 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