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On 21/05/06 15:26:20, Ben Goodger wrote: > Hi, > > Similarly to someone else on this list whose name escapes me, I am > about to > set up a server/mythtv system in my home, to provide PVR > functionality and > commercial web hosting, web design, file storage etc. > > Can anyone recommend a stupidly underspecified, small and ultra- > silent PC I > could obtain to stick mythfrontend on? Obviously its only > functionality will > be starting knoppmyth, logging into GNOME, and decoding a live MPEG-2 > stream. I'm talking 500mHz PII here, or something... Must also be > very > cheap, I'm on a budget of £600 for that, two tuners, cables and parts > of a > new desktop for myself. > > Also advice on the tuner cards -- should I buy digital now or upgrade > in > 2008? And given the computer will be an Athlon XP 2400+ with a gig of > RAM > and also be functioning as an FTP, NFS and HTTP server, should I > purchase a > hardware tuner? > I have been reading all the posts on this and got a bit confused. I am not sure if you want two machines or one or what??? If you want a mythfrontend and a seperate mythbackend and the mythfrontend is just for watching the recorded shows then go buy a mediamvp off ebay for 30 quid and use mvpmc instead of the vendor supplied software and put the rest of the dosh into the backend. Or am I missing something? -- 'ooroo Mike...(:)-) --------------------------------------------------- Email: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx o You need only two tools. o ///// A hammer and duct tape. If it /@ `\ /) ~ doesn't move and it should use > (O) X< ~ Fish!! the hammer. If it moves and `\___/' \) ~ shouldn't, use the tape. \\\ --------------------------------------------------- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html