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My new hardware list for my PVR

After my last try to get some hardware together for my PVR, I did another try at computerland.nl. And this is the list I came up with. I did a downpayment 2 days ago, so I hope I'll have my system within 2 or 3 days. Apart from a good service with computerland, I also managed to get some 60 euro's of the bill, just by asking ;-)

Hardware

This is the list of stuff bought:

  • Case/Motherboard: Shuttle 8500 G4
  • Processor: AMD Sempron 2600 64 bits
  • Tuner card: Hauppauge Win-TV-PVR 500 MCE
    • A very nice card. A bit young, so Linux support is flanky and one needs newer beta drivers. The 150/250 seem to be more mature. However, it has hardware MPEG encoding and has two (!) tunercards and a FM card
  • Videocard: ASUS v9520-X/TD, 128 MB
    • The main reason for this card is, that is has "Nvidia GeForce FX5200" chipset, very old and well suported by the Linux community. It also has TV-out and DVI-I, good choice.
  • Harddisk: Maxtor 300GB 16 MB, SATA II
    • SATA II even!
  • Memory: DIMM 512 MB PC 3200 DDR Nanya
    • "512 MB ought to be enough for everyone"
  • DVD: NEC ND3550 Dual Layer +/- R/ RW
  • Remote control: Philips I/R Remote Controller RC153 NL
  • Network: onboard ethernet
    • I need an extra access point to get frames towards it though
  • Sound: onboard
    • n/a

I'll update this page once I got my hardware.

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By bertboerland at 05/02/2006 - 15:55 | bert | english | geeks/nerds | GNU | hardware | hobby | MythTV | PVR | tv | printer-friendly version | 1490 reads

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How is it going?

Hi Bert! How is your pvr prohect going?

By Fedor (not verified) at Fri, 07/04/2006 - 9:34am | reply

going well

thanks to mikew, most of the props are gone. i was able to screw up and solve the configuration (lircd and nvidea props). all is working now

i still have to install the voip client (i do have a fixed nummber that is sip enabled), install mame and games, do a lot of finetuning on the confguration.

two big things remain
1) enable wifi via an usb stick (sweex)
2) configure more channels (with is a bith in mythtv, hack in teh databases)

the rc isnt orking within mplayer (dvd playing) so that i have to solve as well

all in all, the project is going well though not live yet

--
groets, bert boerland

By bertboerland at Fri, 07/04/2006 - 5:46pm | reply

Remote

I just picked up the MS MCE remote and it appears to be the RC153
Is this thing actually working under linux with lirc?

By Woodhouse (not verified) at Fri, 02/06/2006 - 4:18pm | reply

yes

not easy, but yes it works,

be sure to check out this as well

--
groets, bert boerland

By bertboerland at Fri, 02/06/2006 - 7:05pm | reply

RC153

Did you get this remote working? If so, id love to see the config file and everything. Ive been struggling with mine...

By gnoble (not verified) at Sat, 21/07/2007 - 8:44am | reply

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