The Mini-ITX Linux PVR Project

An anonymous reader writes "Home theater PCs have taken many shapes and forms, perhaps none more interesting than this Mini-ITX PVR. In part three of its Mini-ITX project, XYZ Computing has turned its Mini-ITX box into a Linux PVR, using Ubuntu and MythTV. This is a lot of computer in a very small package and designing it, putting it together, and then getting it to work was an interesting process. The article is a great guide for people who are interested in their own Mini-ITX Linux PVR, but also goes over the problems and pitfalls of a build like this."

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Re:Alternative

[morgan_greywolf]

1. Buy a Mac Mini

2. Plug a USB2 or Firewire tuner and the Keyspan USB remote sensor into it.

3. Install EyeTV software & Keyspan remote software (both included with the hardware.)

4. Set up your universal remote (your TV and/or receiver remote might be a programmable one. Otherwise there are plenty out there to choose from for about twenty bucks) to control both the TV tuner and all your Mac media apps.


5. Watch as your new HiDef movies run incredibly slow and jumpy, with dialogue out of sync with the picture, taking you back to the early days of video on desktop PCs, because of the Mac Mini's pokey 1.5Ghz processor and paltry 667 Mhz FSB. Oh, and the DVD drive is VERY loud.

No, thanks.