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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Alternative

[Golias]

MythTV is very impressive, but not everybody wants to spend their weekend building a box from scratch and installing an OS on it.

Here's a (slightly more expensive) alternative for non-geeks:

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.

Done.