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| 570012 | 2007-07-18 12:19:00 | Hey all, Long time pressf1 reader, first time poster here . Now for the first and by no means the last question . I have acquired an older PC that i want to set-up as a Media PC in my lounge . Its running Ubuntu 7 . 04 perfectly well and would like to keep it if possible . Any suggestions? Any stand alone linux apps that will act as a Windows Media Centre/XBMC substitute? Maybe a combination of apps/skins/GUI . Also want to be able to stream media (MP3/ . avi) from my Windows machine on the wireless network . PC Specs if it helps AMD Athlon 1333 512Mb Ram 80gb Hard drive 64Mb AGP Geforce MX400 DVD/RW Wireless Network Card Thanks in advance . |
Ubunted (12565) | ||
| 570013 | 2007-07-18 12:34:00 | try myth tv I haven't tried it personally though it works as a PVR so don't know if that's an overkill for you |
heni72847 (1166) | ||
| 570014 | 2007-07-18 13:16:00 | revision3.com | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 570015 | 2007-07-18 23:24:00 | Thanks i'll check out MythTV. May as well do it properly and chuck out the old VCR. Now I need a tuner card! | Ubunted (12565) | ||
| 570016 | 2007-07-19 00:06:00 | Recommend the Hauppauge cards. These are excellent with hardware MPEG2 encoding so takes all the processing off the CPU. I have the PVR500MCE which has 2 tuners so I can record 2 different channels at the same time. If you want to go the digital Freeview way then look at a Skystar 2 DVB-S card (requires a satellite dish - an old sky one will work) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 570017 | 2007-07-19 00:19:00 | If you want to go the digital Freeview way then look at a Skystar 2 DVB-S card (requires a satellite dish - an old sky one will work) Is it possible to get the sky signal into the PC/media centre? Not worried about the scrambled channels, just would like to be able to record/timeshift the free to air stuff. I have sky, but no analog aerial. |
sjaxso (11577) | ||
| 570018 | 2007-07-19 00:45:00 | Is it possible to get the sky signal into the PC/media centre? Not worried about the scrambled channels, just would like to be able to record/timeshift the free to air stuff. I have sky, but no analog aerial. Yes, the Hauppauge cards have AV / s-video inputs on them as well. The PVR500MCE has two sets! I have my sky decoder hooked up to the media PC. What I don't have though is anyway of changing the channels on the sky decoder automatically (I don't have the required ir blaster) so if I want to watch / record a sky channel I have to set the channel manually on the decoder. I'm using MediaPortal for watching / recording TV and XMLTVNZ for the electronic program guide. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 570019 | 2007-07-19 03:52:00 | Yes, the Hauppauge cards have AV / s-video inputs on them as well. The PVR500MCE has two sets! I have my sky decoder hooked up to the media PC. What I don't have though is anyway of changing the channels on the sky decoder automatically (I don't have the required ir blaster) so if I want to watch / record a sky channel I have to set the channel manually on the decoder. I'm using MediaPortal for watching / recording TV and XMLTVNZ for the electronic program guide. This is priceless information. My credit card is itching already. :D cheers, cyabro! |
sjaxso (11577) | ||
| 570020 | 2007-07-21 00:05:00 | XBMC IS being ported to Linux, you'll start seeing the fruits of it soon hopefully, its mplayer based IIRC so its just the front-end work that mostly needs to be ported... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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