Hi,
I am in the middle of implementing my own home theatre PC HTPC for short. And in this process I have been around MythTV (the KnoppMythTV distro). It worked right out of the box.
I was doing this on an 1GHz P3, 512 MB RAM. This was super responsive and gave a good usability.
The nice thing about the MythTV solution however is that you get a client-server setup. Both a frontend (GUI from any Linux box with X) and a backend (can reside at a server without X).
Now I was thinking that instead of running both my SME-server in the office AND the new media-server in the livingroom. Why not consolidate things and build a proper and slick looking system with the MythTV backend running from the SME box in the closet networked with an XBOX as a frontend using the XBMC solution!
To begin with the XBOX (old one) was designed to run quiet and cool with great design, which is perfect for the WAF (wife acceptance factor)!
It would really be a nice and userfriendly setup.
In this process I was around the MediaPortal for Windows, which is far inferior in response and stability compared to the MythTV solution, with my HW. It IS very beatifull in the Userinterface. But what the heck.
So in short I would love if anyone here would like to concuct a usable 'Howto turn your SME-Server into a MediaCentre - using MythTV and XBOX frontends'
See info here:
XBOX conversion
http://www.productwiki.com/microsoft_xbox/article/how_to_go_from_xbox_to_xbox_media_center_in_30_minutes.htmlMythTV: (see Pete's link above)
I am not skilled enough with Linux to do deeper operations than follow 'HowTos'. So writing one is out my grasp. I would love to test a Howto though...
BR
Morten
Phone +45 4098 0898 (if anyone could be interested)