[ILUG] mythtv, debian, etc

[Philippe Duval]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 08:25, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
> I'm going to try building up a MythTV box, and was wondering what sort of 
> success any of you have had thus far.  I saw the notes from the beginning 
> of the year, so I know it's something that's being hacked on.  I'll be 
> hooking it up to the NTL digital cable box.

I built a MythBox a while ago. 
It's a Shuttle XPC  case (sn41g2, with an nforce2 chipset).
Myth is not easy to set up, but there is some good documentation,
In particular "Jarod's guide" ( http://wilsonet.com/mythtv ).

I got most of the pieces from Komplett.ie which seemed fairly
 competitive at the time, and were quite good with delivery. 
The only thing I didn't get there was the pvr350. I got it
 on impulse one day in Peats, so I don't know where to find it cheap...

I'm pretty satisfied with the whole thing, except that the shuttle is
fairly noisy. I think one can get a quieter fan for it, but I don't know
where.

As for distro, I went with Gentoo, mainly because I was already used to
it. Jarod's guide is written with Fedora in mind so it's probably easier
with that. 

I still haven't built a IR transmitter to change channels on the NTL
box, so I'd be quite interested about how you got on with that one.

Hope this helps,

Phil