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."

Comments

NEWSFLASH:

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux fucking sucks. It's hardly acceptable for a toy desktop system, let alone a PVR.

Re:NEWSFLASH:

[tmbailey123]

A good musician doesn't blame the instrument 8-)

Re:NEWSFLASH:

[Golias]

A good musician doesn't blame the instrument 8-)

A good musician also buys the best one that he or she can afford (or has one provided, in the case of world-class string instruments.)

Re:NEWSFLASH:

[gEvil (beta)]

And a really good musician quickly learns how to work around the flaws of a cheap instrument to make it sound good.

Impressive, but not really an all-in-one solution

[wackysootroom]

The 1Ghz processor in the mini ITX board would not be able to handle one large aspect of what makes mythtv better than Tivo - Games.

The choice of the Epia mainboard was a good choice. These make really nice myth frontends because they have VLD XvMC via the open source unichrome video drivers. This means that the box should easily handle HD with the proper HD card, even with only 1Ghz processor power on the mainboard.

Re:Alternative

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry to be somewhat offtopic, but I'm looking to use a Thinkpad A20 as a media extender in my family room. My main computer is upstairs and has a lot of videos on it, and the laptop is on the same network. I have a Harmony 659 programmable remote and the laptop has an IR port. The only thing I don't know how to set up is the software.

Is this something that's possible or am I just confused?

Simplist - Where it is hosted

[AviLazar]

The simplist method is to charge the rules for where the site is based from. This is the Internet, I can access a website from anywhere in the world (assuming no filters) so to make some website in say NY suffer the penalties of another state (or for say another country) is insane. There is no way anything could get done. Not to mention, the Internet is generally accessed in the privacy of someone's home or work. It doesn't matter if the community in an area views porn as wrong, a person is allowed to view porn in the privacy of their own home (at work is subject to office protocal). Or let us say a person was not allowed to view porn, in their own home (assuming Alabama) then that person is responsible for breaking the law, not the website....the website provider did not break the law.

If I had a porn website hosted in Alabama, and Alabama forbade those kinds of sites - then I should be held liable.

There is precedent for this, btw. If you are from Pennsylvania, and someone gets into a car accident with you in NY (fault does not matter) then you have to go to NY court to settle. So I do not know why they are making such a big deal of this case.