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Build Your Own PVR

Posted by michael on from the some-assembly-required dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "One geek's trials and tribulations of buying a ReplayTV, hating it, and deciding to build his own Linux PVR from nothing. The first try sinks into the swamp (hardware problems). The second try sinks into the swamp (more hardware problems). The third try... you get the idea. But success, finally, based on SageTV, a Windows PVR client. Makes you wonder if current Linux PVR apps are just too much of a pain to get working well?"

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  1. They told me I was daft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Other geeks said I was daft to build a Linux PVR in a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the most stable PVR in these islands.

  2. you idiot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...should have gotten a TiVo