[mythtvnz] Introduction

[David Lowe]

Welcome aboard Phillip. The guys on this mailing list have been a great help
to me as I'm sure they will be to you.

On the motherboard question, I'd happily recommend the Asus M2NPV-VM.
Integrated graphics work out of the box on Ubuntu. I'm not sure about all
the very technical specs and maybe it's a bit low end for some of the real
afficionados, but it works well for me. 
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=0&model=1138&modelmenu=1

I use a Silverstone case - it's nice looking and quiet enough without any
special cooling.

And I'd second the suggestion that you get a Technisat Skystar 2 right up
front as well to handle Freeview. 

- David

PS plan also to run Ethernet to the bedroom, study, games room etc... you
will soon want to access your PVR from other rooms. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Baird [mailto:phillip.baird at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, 10 December 2007 2:39 p.m.
To: MythTV NZ
Subject: [mythtvnz] Introduction

Hello all,

Thought it would be polite to introduce myself before throwing questions 
to the masses.  My name is Phillip, I have a background in Java/C# 
programming with some of it on Unix/Linux boxes.  Have finally convinced 
the "better half " that MythTV is the way to go (rather than getting a 
commercial DVR) and now have to deliver on my promises by the New Year.

I'm still very much at the reading/research stage, but if anyone would 
like to throw their 2 cents in on the following plan then please feel 
free...

Requirements are pretty simple as this stage - simply be able to record 
from the terrestrial free to air channels & play mpg3's.  So the 
configuration I'm looking at is;

Mythbuntu 7.10 combined front & back in a single box
WinTV PRV-350 (hardware mpeg-2 encoding/decoding being the main reason & 
good remote support)
NVidia 6500 (because it has component video output)
1 GB ram
CPU Intel Dual Core somewhere around the 3GHz mark.
500 GB disk.

Things still to be figured out... (suggestions welcomed)
- sound
- motherboard
- case (needs to be black with a simple clean design)
- dvd drive
- wifi to hook into the lan/net

If you've made it this far then thanks for reading.

/PhillipB