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

[Christopher Fowler]

I've heard of some people storing MP3's as blobs in a MySQL database on
their media device.  One key element is to make a device resemble not a
computer but a VCR.  Hitting the power button causes 0 harm to any of
the files on that box.


On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 14:29, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 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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