[ale] semi OT: ideas about building a PVR/XPC

ChangingLINKS.com x3 at ChangingLINKS.com
Wed Mar 5 14:29:34 EST 2003


Nah. I didn't do too much gaming and such. But, I liked the sound coming out 
of my Amptron 810. I found that speakers mattered more than the cards (I 
guess I do kinda have the same kinda cards in all boxen).

Drew

On Wednesday 05 March 2003 1:29 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I've come to the conclusion that the onboard sound that most
> motherboards (Amptron) provide just suck. Anyone else think the same?
>
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:32, Keith R. Watson wrote:
> > At 04:06 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >Hey all,
> > >
> > >I am planning on building a PVR ( Personal video recorder - like Tivo ),
> > > an XPC ( Multimedia entertainment PC that will hockup to my TV and home
> > > theater ), or some sort of combination.
> > >
> > >I have thought of two basic choices for this attempt.
> > >
> > >1. Buy an Xbox, hack it and install Xbox linux on it ( roughly around
> > > $300 )
> > >
> > >or
> > >
> > >2. Build an XPC using current high end PC hardware  ( roughly around
> > > $1700 )
> > >
> > >The Xbox idea is cheap but not very upgradable. The XPC idea is more
> > >expensive but also more upgradable and mroe useful.
> > >
> > >Have any of you guys ever built anything like this? Have any suggestions
> > >like recommeneded hadrware? software? OS? stuff like that?
> > >
> > >I would really appreciate some input as I have just started seriously
> > >thinking about this.
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > >Lance
> >
> > Lance,
> >
> > I got to the party late, but I brought goodies.
> >
> >
> > MythTV
> > http://www.mythtv.org/
> >
> > Dream-Multimedia-TV
> > http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/cat_eng/
> >
> > eBox
> > http://www.bluelightning.org/ebox/
> >
> > Freevo
> > http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Building a Linux-based time-shifting box
> > http://www.linuxprofessionalsolutions.com/pavlicek/tv.html
> >
> > Video Disk Recorder
> > http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/
> >
> > keith
> > -------------
> >
> > Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ITD
> > Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
> > keith.watson at gtri.gatech.edu           Atlanta, GA  30332-0816
> > 404-894-0836
> >
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