Re: [SLUG] Linux Home Entertainment Centre

[Slug]

My saga so far..

I'm most of the way there but lacking time to finish. I've got to a big
ABC HDTV logo swamping my TV so that's something I guess.

mini-itx 1N board (includes CPU).
256Mb ddr
120Gb Hdd
Nova-t card for digital-tv
Little case (alum)
DVD/CDRW
WiFi USB thingo - cnet-611 - hand to implement the prod/vend ids into
the driver project ot get it going.

All up around 1000-1100 in bits.

H/w runs hot and not silent so it's in a cabinent with holes - should
keep us warm in winter. On the upside it's a power miser and has so far
reduced the power bill by about $40-60 a qtr to my reckoning.

Processor is good. Put it this way, I do s/w development on it and lots
of other stuff and it's fine.

Mandrake,Myth,Linuxtv-dvb-1.1.0, gnome, gmplayer, xine etc etc.

The xmltv stuff and the tuning still to be finished and I'm not started
on the remote control yet!

Once 19" LCDs hit $500 for a good one, the Sony Trinitron goes!

It's a desktop, server, dvd player cd burner, browser, email reader and
soon to be a tivo - I love it. It's on all the time and so reading email
is a case of switching the tv on and fending off my son (he prefers
cartoons) 

If you need the hardware - I too can get it!

HTH


Stu


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 11:39, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Has anyone got any good pointers to setting up a Linux based HEC?  Has
> anyone done it?  How did you go about it?
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Re: [SLUG] Linux Home Entertainment Centre

[Guy Ellis]

Hi Howard,

On the hardware front an ideal motherboard is the Via Mini-iTx with 
embedded CPU.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.jsp

Note the VE5000 and ME6000 are both fanless.

Let me know if you need a case.

Cheers,

 - Guy.

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[SLUG] Linux Home Entertainment Centre

[Howard Lowndes]

Has anyone got any good pointers to setting up a Linux based HEC?  Has
anyone done it?  How did you go about it?

-- 
Howard.
LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people 
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Flatter government, not fatter government - Get rid of the Australian states.
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To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it;
to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it.
 - Scott Granneman, SecurityFocus

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