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I now have a fully dedicated MythTV box running in my living room. Here’s its lovely specs: dual Hauppauge PVR-150 for input (that’s two channels simultaneously) with a remote, a 256 Mb PCIe 16x video card with component video out to my TV. The box does has a hi-def 7.1 sound system, but I don’t have a sound system to handle it, so it’s just doing the regular two-channel audio. The box runs on an Pentium 4 3.06 GHz (With HyperThreading) and a half gig of DDR2 RAM (running single-channel). It has a 250Gb SATA drive for storage (approximately 200 hours). Also, it boasts an 18x DVD burner for ripping and burning DVDs thanks to MythDVD and MythArchive. The system itself runs on Ubuntu 6.10 and MythTV 0.20 with a working lirc input for remote control usage. Also, I have MythWeb installed on the box for (secured) remote access.
In addition to being a dedicated Myth box (frontend for the living room and only backend), the box also doubles as the new server through DynamicDNS. I need to finish moving everything over to it (as it is replacing my normal computer as the main outlet for the web because it is hard-wired onto the network (hence, no problems with wifi), but it will contain all of my public SVN repositories, as well as hosting working copies of all of my projects. Internally, it will be my testing server for my offline replicas of the sites that I maintain (for backups and testing). I have also configured everything so that my own personal computer (which is running a Debian install) also serves as a frontend to the MythTV box, so that I can access and watch things from the Myth box.
Lastly, I have wired my living room electronics so that there is an additional cable connection to my VCR and TV, allowing me to record 2 channels on the Myth box, while also watching or recording a third on the VCR. I may re-wire it so that I can have a fourth output to the TV so that I can record to the VCR while also watching on the TV. Yes, that’s major TV watching, which I doubt I’ll never do, but it’s a possibility, mainly for completeness’s sake.