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

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

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.

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?