Via's small form factor, the Falcon has a small power supply and a small form factor board but you get the chip with it :-( VIA may sell the power supply seperately, failing that why not vandalise an old laptop?
Via are also looking at fanless, hard driveless options as well. Their site is worth checking out. As for Sky and tuners, there is a hack which allows a certain chipset in a video card to receive sky for free. On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 21:46, you wrote: > athlon 1133, 512MB RAM, geforce 2 card, running at present into a 17 > inch dell trnintron tube monitor. the capture card is the cheapie from > DSE, it has no tuner, just captures the composite video output from my > sky box. > > I see mythtv has facility for a custom tuner change command. I guess i > need to rig a remote IR sender thru the serial port and change the sky > channel through that. I know there are various projects for this about > the place. > > I am considering, when funds allow, getting a mini-itx motherboard and > slipping it, a power supply, a big hard drive and a dvd player > (recorder???) into an old video recorder which has died. I am inspired by > http://www.mini-itx.com/ :-) > > Anyone know of a 100 watt or more silent (preferably no fan) power > supply? > > A lot of the mini-itx projects use a laptop style power supply, but they > seem to be limited to about 55 W, and it is said (on above site) that > they will not service a full size cd/dvd drive. slimline drives are > wickedly expensive. > > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 08:30:34 +1200 > > Brad Beveridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What hardware are you running it on? With a lot of tweaking on a 1Ghz > > Celeron it was almost OK :) > > > > Brad > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, 18 August 2003 11:43 p.m. > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: MythTV > > > > > > > > > MythTV is a project for personal tv recorder/player/frontend > > > to your music collection etc. It kicks ass being able to > > > pause and rewind television! I like it so far. > > > > > > More playing tomorrow night if I get time. -- Shane Hollis Notes Unlimited New Zealand Ph: 021 465 547 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
