Additional Software for a Homemade PVR?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday October 4, 2005 @08:45AM from the it's-the-extras-that-make-it-special dept.

MankyD asks: "I'm almost done loading up a new Gentoo installation paired with MythTV and a hardware MPEG2 encoder. I'm looking forward to finishing but before I let it loose upon my television, I was wondering what else I should compile in. Samba File sharing? A webserver (for watching shows on the road)? A CPU/Memory monitor? An additional media player? Not to start a flamewar, but should I do KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, or some other window manager (especially when viewed on a TV screen)? What bells and whistles can I add to make my system that much more complete?"

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Re:Ick! by Plac3bo · 2005-10-04 09:56 · Score: 5, Interesting

I know I really shouldn't be taking the bait, but...

I just re-built my Myth box from scratch. Gentoo stage3, PVR-250 (ivtv), 400G LVM (3 physical drives), etc etc, and the entire install and setup only took about 4 hours. It was extremely painless and I did not encounter any road blocks. Guess I just want others to realize it isn't as bad as some people make it seem.

Note: I have been running Gentoo and MythTV for a few years, so, I know my hardware and installation process pretty well by now.