Ubuntu-US-NM Mythbuntu 7.10 Released

[Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team]

In two words "stateless hardware." No sound, no fans or moving 
parts...apart from the DVD-ROM, and would consume less power. Also 
expense. I originally looked at building a Silent HTPC but the cost 
associated with it was more than the $200 for the BTL. I opted to take 
some of the money that I would have spend making the HTPC silent and put 
it into storage on the MythTV server. With the serverv housed in another 
room away from the AV equipment I don't have to worry about sound.

The Koala would make a good Mythtv Frontend box if you could embed 
Ubuntu on flash drive, I've read about doing something that in an 
article about creating a MPD appliance in March edition of Linux Journal 
. Using something like....

http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=74&pp=74

Again we are back to cost.

Eric



Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team wrote:
> What made you pick the buffalo over something like:
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> http://system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=53
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> Would this still be too loud?
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> Chris.
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> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 12:08:55PM -0600, Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team wrote:
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>> I believe so.  One of the issues that I've tried avoid with my setup was
>> noise, and heat, from a PC while I watch or listen to my media.  The
>> only inexpensive way I found was not to have a PC near my A/V equipment.
>> I'm a bit of an Audiophile so any noise that impedes full audio
>> immersion would drive me crazy...crazier. =)
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>> I opted to go with a Buffalo Linktheater..
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>> http://www.antonline.com/p_PC-P3LWG-DVD-GA_172939.htm?gclid=CPSyi8uRrY8CFREDWAodlTI6Og
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>> ...and stream my media from my MythTV/Home Media Server using Wizd.
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>> http://wizd.sourceforge.net/
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>> If you do pick one do not use the on board wireless it's junk.  
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>> To share the media to the BLT via Wizd is easy is just a matter of point
>> it to your media...here's section of my Wizd conf file.
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>> alias           DVD             /media/dvd
>> moviealias      Movies          /media/movies
>> alias           TV_XVID         /media/tv
>> alias           TV_RAW          /media/raw_tv
>> musicalias      Music           /home/music
>> photoalias      Photos          /media/photos
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>> Also the BTL support USB connections so you could connect a USB drive to
>> it for play back.  Mind you the USB drive has to be formatted as FAT32.
>>
>> Eric
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>> On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:50 -0600, Ubuntu US-New Mexico Team wrote:
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>>>         Hi Eric. I have all my movies in DivX. So I want to save them
>>> on the server and play them from the server. Do you think Mythbuntu is
>>> good for that purpose??? 
>>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
>>> Best regards, 
>>>
>>> Igor Dernov
>>>       
>> - Eric 
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>> ----------------------------------------
>> Eric J. Krieger
>> email: unmlobo at gmail.com
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>>
>> Random Quote:
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>> Fry: You gotta help me, Bender. How can I prove I'm human?
>> Bender: You could drop dead. That'd show 'em.
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>> Fri Oct 26 12:08:27 MDT 2007 
>> 12:08:27 up 3:58, 2 users, load average: 0.55, 0.37, 0.22 
>> #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 GNU/Linux 
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