MythTV - ease of setup

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Tom Metro <blu at vl.com> writes:

> Speaking of the front-end, unless you plan to only watch videos on 
> computer screens, you'll need to budget some time for building or 
> setting up a front-end computer or appliance to attach to a TV. The 
> Hauppauge MediaMVP is a decent, low-power, inexpensive choice, but it 
> runs its own front-end software that has fewer features than the regular 
> mythfrontend client, and only natively supports MPEG2 video. If you plan 
> to store only a modest amount of video, that may be fine. Otherwise 
> you'll want to use MPEG4, and that'll require additional software (VLC, 
> which I haven't tried yet) on your server to stream the video to the 
> MediaMVP.

I don't think the MediaMVP supports HDTV, yet, does it?

I'm still trying to spec out what I want to do for my HDTV Myth
frontend.  I'd love a low-power set top box, or an EPIA, or a
Shuttle..  But I want one that will actually provide a 1080p signal to
my HDTV box.

-derek

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