My MythTV (like Tivo) box is working!!!

[bryanthompson]

w00T! I finally got a chance to try out my new Mini-ITX (EPIA-M 10000) mobo yesterday, and it's freaking perfect! I have a Hauppauge 500 dual TV tuner card installed with a 40 gig hdd. I burned the latest version of Knoppmyth (R5A22) and let it install everything. When finished, I didn't have to install any linux drivers at all, and I was able to watch TV. Even with 256 megs of ram and the 1ghz processor I was able to cleanly record two shows at once. Watching TV while it records, though, isn't the best. This machine will sit in a closet & record things, then i'm going to have it drop the converted shows onto my big machine.

I'm working on haing it automatically convert the recorded shows to a smaller format... as it is now, a 30 minute show takes up 1.1 gigs!

Total cost:
Spare 40 gig hdd $0
Spare crappy cdrom: $0
spare ITX case: $0
EPIA-M: $150
Hauppauge 500: $160

[FrayAdjacent911]

Nice man. I got an external Hauppauge TV tuner, and have been using it's software in XP. It keeps locking up when I set it to record, or just have the TV program open.

I'm thinking about throwing Fedora on it, and run MythTV on top of it. Maybe it will work better.

[id10t]

Don't bother. Just get another small box (old p2 or something) to run a big NAS setup and store it all that way. Good for ripping your purchased dvds as well. Then build another small mini-itx box for playing the video... although I thought the m1k had a hw mpeg decoder?