Media Centre PC - Using Ubuntu

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Greg Donhardt <greg at donhardt.id.au> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Just wondering if anyone has had any experience setting up ubuntu as a
> media PC.
>
> I have been using Ubuntu for about 6 months now and consider myself an
> advanced level user. I am looking for advice on hardware, software, how
> to go about it all.

Get poking around some of this stuff and you might change your mind on
the 'advanced user' part ;-)

The three bigger projects right now are MythTV, Freevo and Elisa -
with lots of others floating around too.  That will get you started
with the software end of things anyway.

Media centre hardware is actually something I need to learn more about
too - maybe others have pointers for that, but I'm sure the MythTV
forums etc are good starting points too.

Mythbuntu or Elisa are probably the easier starting points.  There's a
giant range of things you can do and ways to do it in this area, so I
think I'd start by playing around with whatever hardware you have on
hand and get a feel for it before you spend any money.  Just dive on
in and see which way your nose leads you.

Brian