Originally posted by LordShryku
I knew there had to be someone else here who understood my passion for disk space 😃
BTW goldbug, I'm glad you brought that up. I've been considering building a MythTV box. How much did you spend on the hardware?
Welllll, unfortunately I spent a tad more than an actual Tivo or ReplayTV unit would cost. But it's got many many many more features, and I don't have to pay any subscription fees, so that sorta cancels out, imho.
If you want to build one, see if you've got any old hardware laying around that can suffice. Unfortunately, I didn't have any extra mobo/proc combinations (that worked) sitting around, so I ended up buying a cheapy mobo and Athlon XP2200+ (~150usd total). I just borrowed a 40GB hard drive from my file server (def. NOT big enough unless you are relentless on transcoding to smaller codecs).
One peice I payed for that was definitely worth it: Hauppauge PVR-250 board (~150usd retail). It captures really nice quality video, and comes with a lirc-compatible remote (very latest lirc version).
Just used an Nvidia Geforce4 board I had laying around for the TV-out.
I did have an older bttv-based capture card (Pinnacle) that I wanted to use as a second tuner, but due to kernel module conflicts, I can't use it (ivtv [pvr250] conflicts with the bttv module iirc -- has to do with the tuner on the boards or something)
As far as the software... I'm running it on gentoo, which was is nice, because it saved me from compiling everything manually. The manual obviously was written with Mandrake and RedHat in mind, but it mentions Gentoo, so it wins some points there 🙂
The last I updated it, the only module not in portage was mythweb, the web-based scheduler app, which I can do without for now.
Lemme know if you've got any questions if you decide to build one.... it was a bitch to get running, and it'll probably take a bit of time. 😃
