Thanks! i only have freeview so i guess I just need something to plug in an antenna or an euroconnector? (Looking for something that is proved to work with ubuntu of course.
-- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents plain txt or pdf are prefered. ----- Original message ----- > On 08/07/11 21:27, Andres wrote: > > I'm seeing virgin media tv ads about the tivo box. > > > > Is this stuff that mythubuntu can do? > > If so what is the hardware any of you would recomend? > > I understand the Tivo box has some sort of inteligence in it in that it > can suggest TV programs and what not. Not to mention the Virgin Tivo > box supports HD cable programming :-) > > But from what I've read about MythTV it also seems very powerful if you > spend the time tweaking it. > > The last time I was reading up about it, if you wanted to do HDTV > playback it was recommended that you had an NVidia graphics card > (something like a Geforce 8400 or higher or a GeForce 210 or higher) > which can offload the HD video decoding to the graphics card so you can > have a lower spec machine. > > I believe if you want just Freeview then an Atom board with an Ion > chipset with maybe 2GB Ram and a big hard drive and some USB Freeview > sticks would suffice. > > I guess really to advise what hardware you'd need depends on what you > want to do. If you wanted to you could maybe have a powerful backend > with a few tuner cards (maybe a couple of DVB-S2 Satellite tuners and > some Freeview tuners) for free to air channels and then multiple front > ends to play all back on. > > Personally I am tempted to get one of these... > http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253305 > > It's a low power dual core Athlon II server with 1GB Ram and a 250GB > hard drive. It's small and has space for 4 drives and up to 8GB Ram. > It also has a £100 cashback offer until the end of this month. > > Originally I was thinking of getting one to replace my P4 server in the > loft with something lower power and quieter but after some thought, if I > stick a Geforce 210 in there I can also use it for MythTV as well > (although due to the limited internal slots, I'd have to use USB > tuners), and finding a USB sound card with SPDIF output which is > compatible with Ubuntu seems to be a bit of a challenge. > > Rob > >
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