Here we go, first comes the fun part.
We should buy some stuff.
So i recently started looking at TV Cards.
Since the TV Cards known to work with MythTv are mostly older Cards, i had to look at Ebay.
So i found myself a few Hauppauge PVR 150 Cards.
Started bidding and bought two of them.
I also bought a Pinnacle PCTV Studio since it was extremely cheap (1 €).
I am still lacking a DVB-S Card.
I’m looking at the Nexus or Nova Series.
What do else do i need?
Hardware for the Backend and Frontend.
So i bought the stuff for the Frontend first.
Just arrived:
Via Epia M9000
This is a nice little Mainboard with C3 Processor doing 900mhz.
I put 512MB RAM on it.
It has one PCI Slot and an S-Video Out as well as a Via Unichrome Chip with Hardware MPEG2 Decoder.
This should fit perfectly into the concept of doing a quiet unobtrusive Frontend.
Still waiting for the second Part,
Morex Cubid 2600 ITX Case with an external 150W Power Brick.
I know there are much nicer cases, but this one was really cheap.
Also found on Ebay, paid 30 € for it, mint condition, black.
So what else do i miss?
Sure, some Storage for the Frontend, Harddisks are not suitable for this project since i want it to be quiet.
So i took a peak at the SSD Market and found myself a nice little 1 inch 8GB Transcend IDE SSD.
This should be enough to do a mythtv frontend.
Im still missing a DVD Drive, i found a cheap Samsung Slim Drive.
I have not bought it yet.
