[LinuxUsers] Revo Media Center

[Michael Gorman]

I built a mythtv box using mythbuntu a few months ago and I've had nothing
but positive experiences.

Used an old PC i had sitting around as I'm transitioned to using mostly my
netbook or macbook pro for everything these days. Its a high end AMD X2
which is overkill since the video capture card does mpeg 2 encoding itself.
I underclock the X2 to 1ghz to be more economical and have had very little
uses. The contrast can be a bit crappy on certain things, but thats because
i went with the cheapest Hauppauge PVR card i could find just to get it up
and running. Other higher end cars do not have this problem.

I have the frontend and backend running on that PC, for my room. In the
living room I've got my netbook which also has a frontend installed on it so
that it can stream the content from the backend up stairs. The Ps3 (and i'd
assume Xbox 360) is also able to stream content already recorded as MythTV
shares out via a UPNP streaming protocol.


Michael Gorman
http://michaeljgorman.com


On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:08 AM, John R. Hogerhuis <jhoger at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, John Richmond IV <john4 at randrinc.com>
> wrote:
> > I have been looking at putting together an FOSS media center and have
> > been looking at Mythbuntu with Boxee.  How does that compare to XBMC?
> >
> > The goal is to cut out my cable tv bill and take advantage on the
> > internet pipeline I have coming into the house.
>
> No experience with XBMC, but I will say that MythTV was trash each
> time and the last time I tried it (couple of years ago).
>
> It was so crashy and non-performant that I went Tivo and haven't looked
> back.
>
> My wife tolerates my hobbies but if her shows not taping can in any
> way be traced to me, I get a lot of grief.
>
> Just not worth it...
>
> -- John.
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