On 1/20/06, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found a fairly comprehensive HTPC (TV) howto. > > http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/
Plenty of sites around talking about it, just need to do the correct search. > > Worth reading as he talks a lot about power supplies, harddrive > reliability and other stuff that I found interesting. He seems to have > destroyed more hardware than I have owned. > > Suggests 1Ghz to record and 2Ghz (3Ghz recommended) to playback. > > Standard TV is a lot less 1Ghz seems OK. > > Talks about Pentium Vs AMD and recommends Pentium, AMD tends to > bottleneck a little. Luckily my spare is a Pentium. > > 4Gb per show on the harddrive. He also recommends that you leave you > main harddrive non-LVM andset up the rest as LVM with as much harddisk > as you can get. For noise and heat reasons the larger the HD the > better. Depends on the channel, as some channels broadcast at different bitrates and thus 30mins on one channel is not the same disk space on another channel for 30 mins. All I can say is that your disk fills rather quickly, especially when you have 2 tuners doing a bit of recording. I was sitting at about 99gb used lastnight, however I watched about 2-3 programs and then recorded another 3 overnight, so I reckon I am back over 99gb again. > > I am still reading, interesting stuff. > > Remotes the keyword seems to be lirc (Linux Infrared Control). > Some remotes dont work with lirc, like mine. Its just a USB HID device. But you can certainly work around it. If anyone is handy with a soldering iron, maybe they could have a go at making me a Serial IR module so my remote will talk to my IR serial port (rather then the USB IR thing I get with the cards). Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
