Of MythTV and Women
Software, posted: 16-Jul-2008 14:47
Now that demostrates the dangers on saved passwords on a computer your significant other can access! I will leave the postposterity, or at least temporary posterity . I was going to make a post here about my experience with mythtv but first a bit on WAF.
As I'm sure anyone who has run a Media-Center as the primary TV watching device in a household has noticed the importance of Women Acceptance Factor, the need for your significant other to be able to use the device and for it to work reliably. Having had a difficult start with my media-center (it spent a lot of the time originally operating without a case, before going through multiple re-installs to get a stable, working system) I definitely understand it! And this is where I come to myth, I have personally found it better on the WAF than MediaPortal. Yes, it took longer to get setup as I had to figure out getting a working remote and guide (after initially wasting time with xmlTVNZ 2.5), and as I was working on the setup M (read the entire post)...
As I'm sure anyone who has run a Media-Center as the primary TV watching device in a household has noticed the importance of Women Acceptance Factor, the need for your significant other to be able to use the device and for it to work reliably. Having had a difficult start with my media-center (it spent a lot of the time originally operating without a case, before going through multiple re-installs to get a stable, working system) I definitely understand it! And this is where I come to myth, I have personally found it better on the WAF than MediaPortal. Yes, it took longer to get setup as I had to figure out getting a working remote and guide (after initially wasting time with xmlTVNZ 2.5), and as I was working on the setup M (read the entire post)...
This is why you shouldn't have automatic login on your computer and then leave bored girls alone in the house!
General, posted: 14-Jul-2008 23:14
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The Media Center
Hardware, posted: 13-Jul-2008 14:39
I will start off here with some details on the media center itself. I built this machine at the start of the year, the core components (CPU/MB/HDD) were all new with some old RAM I had, plus the Hauppauge PVR150 I had been using with Vista Media Center and an old PSU. The original spec specs:
Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4GHz single core)
1 GB RAM
Nvidia 6100 graphics on cheap ASUS motherboard
320 GB Seagate
PVR150
DVD-ROM Drive
MCE USB2 Remote
Mythbuntu 8.04 (mythtv 0.21)
All this this was put into the wooden case I built myself, which you can see in the pics below:
A disclaimer: I am not responsible for MC's colour scheme and name! I let my significant other loose on it with spraypaint and this was the result. I do actually like it though, its a bit different and surely unique.
As I noted above this machine was orginally running mythtv however the (read the entire post)...
Athlon 64 3800+ (2.4GHz single core)
1 GB RAM
Nvidia 6100 graphics on cheap ASUS motherboard
320 GB Seagate
PVR150
DVD-ROM Drive
MCE USB2 Remote
Mythbuntu 8.04 (mythtv 0.21)
All this this was put into the wooden case I built myself, which you can see in the pics below:
A disclaimer: I am not responsible for MC's colour scheme and name! I let my significant other loose on it with spraypaint and this was the result. I do actually like it though, its a bit different and surely unique.
As I noted above this machine was orginally running mythtv however the (read the entire post)...
Welcome
General, posted: 8-Jul-2008 21:32
Well I had been looking for a place to put down what I have learnt setting up my media center this year so here goes! I'm a final year mech eng student at University of Canterbury who is interested in AV and computers, hence the natural progression into an HTPC. I started out with a mythbuntu build and have since moved to MediaPortal for the DVB-T support; I will put down what I have learnt from both here.
More to come later, I will start with pointing out the resources I have used to get what I have. I am by no means a computer expert, and have very little linux knowledge, so I can only stand on the shoulder of giants. In no particular order: the mythbuntu forumns, mythtv.org & mythtv.co.nz, Geekzone, the MP forums and cranznz's setup guide for MP. (read the entire post)...
More to come later, I will start with pointing out the resources I have used to get what I have. I am by no means a computer expert, and have very little linux knowledge, so I can only stand on the shoulder of giants. In no particular order: the mythbuntu forumns, mythtv.org & mythtv.co.nz, Geekzone, the MP forums and cranznz's setup guide for MP. (read the entire post)...
