why you should try MythTv

[drew at drewtaylor.com (Drew Taylor)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank [mailto:fmoody-ug-blu-discuss at moodman.org]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 3:10 PM
> To: discuss at blu.org
> Cc: miah; Derek Atkins
> Subject: Re: why you should try MythTv
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:04:22PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
>>miah <jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:37:12AM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>>>For a front-end you don't need the HDD upgrade, the USB mod, or the
>>>>tuner.  So we're talking about $215 for the box plus the cost of the
>>>>TV.
>>>>
>>>>-derek
>>>
>>>Then it could probably be done cheaper by actually buying a low-end pc
>>>and not require any modding.
>>
>>You can get a low-end PC with hefty-enough video output for under $215???
>>Where?  URL, please!  Bonus points if you can point me to an inexpensive
>>LCD display....
>>
>>-derek
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
> 	I'm not sure how much the load differs from pulling mythtv
> recordings 
> versus Myth playing TiVo streams over NFS, but my little EPIA M9000 seems to
> 
> have the required horsepower.  I'm not sure about various other lines in the
> 
> EPIA family but the M10000s run ~$150 and they are slightly faster/better
> than 
> my board.  (Those are motherboard/CPU combos with onboard
> audio/video/TV-OUT, 
> so add memory and whatever local drive space you want.)

Frank,
I'll look into the EPIA board you mentioned. I found it for $153 at 
monarchcomputer.com via froogle. I have 256MB of PC2100 that I've had 
lying around for a year or two, plus an old CDROM, so I wouldn't need 
any other outlay for this box after the MB. :-)

> Keller, Tim wrote:
>> If you really wanted to get fancy you could even configure the thing to boot
>> via BOOTP and NFS mount all of it's file systems so you wouldn't have a
>> spinning hard drive.

My plan was hopefully to have no HD at all and run off CD. The KnoppMyth 
FAQ says I can run the frontend off the CD if I have an existing MythTV 
backend running. No HD == less noise and less power draw.

Drew
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