[sllug-members]: Building MythTV Front end systems

[u235sentinel]

I've been tempted to purchase an XBOX for this but my beef is I won't 
spend another dime on Microsoft products if I can help it at all.  This 
Vista crap was the last straw.  So now I'm abandoning Microsoft at home.

I'm setting up Steam under Kubuntu Linux and running Counter Strike 
Source (hopefully soon will get TF2 running under it also).  So my 
gaming addiction will be ok.

Microsoft products are gone in the next year.  Hell, if somebody gave me 
an XBOX I'd use it but that's about the only way it will happen.

Have I mentioned I really dislike the company?

;-)


Chris Carey wrote:
> 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.
> 
> --
> Chris