[DLC] My MythTV installation experience

[Matthew Lechleider]

90% of hardware was purchased on new egg over 1 year ago.  You can probably
find similar products for even cheaper today. New egg is your best friend.

Old case I took out of garbage
Free

500w CompUSA power supply
$40 (Used a gift card)

MSI K8MM-V Socket 754 VIA K8M800 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
$42.99

AMD Sempron 64 2800+ Palermo 1.6GHz Socket 754 Processor Model SDA2800BXBOX
- Retail
$40.00

WINTEC AMPO 1GB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Desktop Memory Model
3AMD1400-1GB1-R - Retail
(note I eventually took out 512 of the RAM because 512 DDR is all that is
needed)
$74.99

eVGA 128-A8-NV96-LX GeForce MX4000 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X Low Profile Video
Card - Retail
$27.99

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 274 PCI Interface Personal video recorder - Retail
(Came with free remote that works perfectly for Linux)
$53.99 x 2 = 107.98

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology)
320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
$94.99

Total - 428.94

Sadly this is still too expensive.  You better off using an original xbox
which you can now find for under $100.

--
Matthew Lechleider



--------- Original Message --------
From: DePaul Linux Community <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
To: DePaul Linux Community <dlc at mailman.depaul.edu>
Subject: Re: [DLC] My MythTV installation experience
Date: 19/01/07 11:31

> --- Matthew Lechleider &lt;matthew at lechleider.com&gt; wrote:
> &gt; I
> &gt; have
> &gt; never had a TV tuner &quot;die&quot;.  My machine has up times of 3 -
5 months
> &gt; at a
> &gt; time recording multiple shows daily.
> 
> What specs do you have?
> 
> I imagine I am having some kind of hardware conflict.  Just this
> morning I found out that if I plug the USB audio device into the back
> of the machine along with the USB wireless device, the wireless device
> can't seem to configure itself. When I move the audio device back to
> the front panel, the wireless device just works.
> 
> It is entirely possible that the problem I had this morning was due to
> those two devices not playing nice together.  Then again, it could just
> be the motherboard.  As I say in the article, the motherboard and the
> capture cards seem to be the main concerns.  Maybe if I ever get the
> onboard audio working (probably a kernel upgrade when Edgy updates), I
> won't have to worry about the wire hanging out of the front of the
> machine.
> 
> &gt; Has there been a DLUG PVR/MythTV event?
> 
> No, but I do recall that there was a discussion about doing one in the
> past year or two.  I'm sure there would be some interest.
> 
> 
>  
>
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