[sllug-members]: Building MythTV Front end systems

[Chris Carey]

On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:30 PM, u235sentinel <u235sentinel at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm at the point now where I'm looking to build several MythTV
>  frontend systems running Ubuntu Linux and am looking for decent hardware
>  on the cheap.  I've been hearing a lot about the shuttle and was hoping
>  for an opinion on them.


I quite like using an XBOX with XBMC as the frontend for myth. There
is a script addon for XBMC that lets you list all your shows, delete
shows, etc. The only downer is the lack of commercial skipping.
Though, with the right configuration, you can have the commercials
removed at the time it transcodes MPG2 to MPG4. Then you've got a
great frontend for appx $70.

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Chris