Make your own PVR
I need your help in coming up with the hardware /software spec for a film watching device that is hooked up to a free to air digital satellite and the web via wireless. I'd like to (1) programme it with a front end like TIVO (2) download stuff via RSS and Bit torrent. The front end that seems to do this is MythTV. I'm thinking it is a small silent box with a large internal hard disk, a TV tuner, encoder and surround sound. Most importantly it needs to be incredibly cheap. Thoughts? I am particularly clueless on how to set up a sateillte dish and transponder.
If we come up with a good solution, maybe we can get rich by making them and selling them to idiots on ebay (I'd certainly buy one if it existed) a bit like this or this but open source
If we come up with a good solution, maybe we can get rich by making them and selling them to idiots on ebay (I'd certainly buy one if it existed) a bit like this or this but open source
posted by hobart65 at
4:32 pm
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Here it is! Go to http://www.hushtechnologies.net/ and look at the Hush ATX-PVR PC
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hobart65, at 12:11 am
there are loads of linux projects out there for this as well. might be an option if you want to save on the hardware, since its going to make more efficient usage of it.
http://freevo.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
the development for freevo is frenetic. since its one of the most interesting areas. the advantage of this is that codecs and stuff are available for everything under the sun.
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