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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
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