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

[Keith R. Watson]

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
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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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