On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:02, Matt W. wrote: > A quick search "build your own tivo" on google says, Yes! > http://www.mythtv.org/ > among others. > > Pretty cool, check it out. This'll definitely be a fun winter project; > especially being that my x-gf has my VCR.
I'm in the process of building such a box and so far I've been impressed with MythTV. Mostly I'll be using mine for MythMusic, the mp3 jukebox. One thing that I found a little confusing was the hardware requirements. Obviously you need tv out and tv input cards for it to work. Unless your card can do mpeg encoding and/or decoding you'll need a pretty beefy processor. I think if I were to build a tv unit I'd go for one of the Hauppage PVR cards that they support. But just for music, it's working great on a pentium 133. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
