why you should try MythTv

[drew at drewtaylor.com (Drew Taylor)]

Drew Taylor wrote:

> I haven't yet actually setup MythTV, but the advantage I've read about 
> using the PVR-[23]50 cards is that they can do things in hardware. The 
> 250 does decoding, and the 350 does both encoding and decoding. This 
> enables you to use a much lower powered (and probably quieter) box to 
> run MythTV. And let's not forget the power savings of not running the 
> latest Athlon-64 CPU either. ;-)

And replaying to myself...
This /. article 
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/06/1321243&tid=222&tid=203&tid=179&tid=211 
got me thinking: Has anyone used an XBox (running a Linux distribution 
of course) to run a MythTV front end? I get my cheap, silent (but maybe 
not low power) frontend.

Drew
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