Ubuntu, MythTV As a HTPC Operating System

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Mar 2006 16:48 UTC, submitted by anonymous

This project combines Ubuntu and MythTV into a lightweight, undemanding HTPC computer. "The plans were, roughly, to install a hard drive, move to a more powerful Linux distribution, and add PVR capabilites to the system. Because the computer was already situated in my living room, making it into a personal video recorder was an obvious choice, though doing this on a Mini-ITX Linux system would surely take a bit of finesse."

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hmm..

by helf on Tue 28th Mar 2006 18:24 UTC

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2005-07-06

ok, I haven't read the article yet, but I got a laugh out of "Ubuntu" and "lightweight" being in the same sentense.

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RE: hmm..

by SEJeff on Tue 28th Mar 2006 20:22 UTC in reply to "hmm.."

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2005-11-05

If you do the server install and then install the necessary packages, ubuntu is an extremely lightweight desktop. I did a server install and then apt-get installed xubuntu-desktop for a very lightweight xfce setup.

Also, since you are flaming Ubuntu, what is you definition of lightweight?
Fedora? No
OpenSuSE? No
Mandrake? No

Stop trying to start flamewars... not cool.

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RE[2]: hmm..

by JLF65 on Wed 29th Mar 2006 04:39 UTC in reply to "RE: hmm.."

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2005-07-06

Ubuntu using xfce is definitely lightweight. My brother just put that on an old laptop I have - 200ish MHz P2 and 64M of memory, but under xubuntu it still runs extremely well.

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KnoppMyth

by Snapper on Tue 28th Mar 2006 18:38 UTC

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2005-11-16

KnoppMyth works great for this function.

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Just a suggestion

by Caspian on Tue 28th Mar 2006 18:53 UTC

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2006-01-01

Next time, he should use a sata hard drive. They are faster, and the cable is much smaller, to allow for better airflow.

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RE: Just a suggestion

by fxer on Tue 28th Mar 2006 19:33 UTC in reply to "Just a suggestion"

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2005-08-06

From the article:

An IDE disk had to be used because the motherboard lacked SATA connectors.

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RE[2]: Just a suggestion

by Caspian on Tue 28th Mar 2006 19:50 UTC in reply to "RE: Just a suggestion"

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2006-01-01

I understand this. Perhaps a motherboard upgrade was necessary then.

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amazing.

by broken_symlink on Tue 28th Mar 2006 20:44 UTC

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2005-07-06

this guy must be an animal at parties! what a boring article.

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Cool

by netpython on Wed 29th Mar 2006 07:35 UTC

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2005-07-06

Cool project.I�m thinking about a project similar to this one some time now only the �'s won'� at least try to cooperate the way i would like :-)

Nice article notheless!

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Linux HTPCs not ready for HDTV?

by dauger on Wed 29th Mar 2006 18:30 UTC

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2006-01-17

Is anyone working on a solid upscailing solution for Linux yet? I've been using MCE + NVIDIA pure video for 4x3 interlaced dvds, and I've been using Zoom Player and FFDSHOW for all other content. From what I can tell there is nothing comparable image quality wise by a long shot under Linux.

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