That's appealing. Depending on<br>what else shows up I'll give this <br>serious consideration. The price<br>is right, and I do have an appropriate<br>monitor.<br><br>The Plextor unit is the volume card <br>now for Myth?
i.e., well suported?<br><br>Re DivX and h.264, what is the <br>difference? Ones sees DivX in many<br>of the stand alone unit ads. <br><br>Thanks for the pointers.<br><br> -Bob<br><br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 30, 2007 2:57 PM, Tim Schmidt <
<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm immensely happy with my MythTV box.
<br><br>I'm running Mythbuntu, using a Plextor PX-TV402U on a 1.3Ghz<br>PIII-based Celeron with 512Mb ram, integrated Intel 815-based<br>graphics, an 80Gb hard drive, and a cheap DVD-RW. I get better than 1<br>hour / Gb at 640x480, and I simply have the machine hooked up to a
<br>monitor instead of a TV (nowadays TVs _are_ large monitors - complete<br>with VGA and DVI / HDMI). I simply use an RF keyboard as the remote.<br><br>It took all of an hour to install Mythbuntu, 5 minutes to set up the
<br>tuner, and a minute or two to install libdecess for DVD playing.<br><br>The tuner does MPEG4 (the Divx variety, not h.264) encoding in<br>hardware, and the 815 seems to have some XvMC support, so the only<br>thing left for the Celeron to handle is commercial flagging and basic
<br>maintenance duties like frobbing the database and drawing the GUI.<br><br>I literally found the computer outside my apartment one day (it had<br>clearly sat through a light rain - I had to replace the battery,<br>probably why it was abandoned) - $5
<br>I ebayed the tuner for $80 + $9.50 s&h<br>I bought the 17" CRT at a garage sale for $30<br>The keyboard set me back $44 at newegg<br>DVDRW was a hand-me-down from an upgraded box<br><br>Total cost: $168.50<br>
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