User:Bill

Bill lives in Melbourne Australia and works as a Software Engineer for a bio-medical company. At home he likes to tinker with Linux, electronics, and spends way too much time doing Medieval Stuff with the SCA.

MythTV for my brother

MythTV Setup with LCD TV

• Hardware
  • Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
  • Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
  • ASUS K8V-X Motherboard
  • AMD 754 Sempron 2600+ CPU
  • ASUS 5200 AGP Graphics with TV-out
  • Seagate HDD 8M IDE 250GB
  • Antec Overture II Case
  • RAM 512GB Generic
  • Pioneer 109 Black DVD-WR x16
  • Microsoft MCE Remote Control
  • MSI Wireless54G PCI Card
• Total Cost is around AU$1000
• Partitioned with LVM so that extra disks are easy to add
• Running Debian Sarge (would use Ubuntu next time)

MythTV for myself

• Hardware
  • Twinhan MiniTer DVT PCI DVB Card
  • Excel BTTV TV Capture Card (Analog)
  • Homebuilt Intel Desktop PC
• Running Debian Sid as main desktop computer

MythTV XBox Frontend

• Hardware
  • XBox v1.6 (bought 2005)
  • Homebrew modchip (AU$20) from Jaycar
• Software
  • XBox Media Center XBMC
  • Xebian Linux