Matthias Palmérs PVR

Requirements

• Quiet
• Low energy consumtion
• Capable of using the 1366x768 resolution of my 40" LCD TV (Samsung)
• Include all regular PVR features such as timeshifting, DVD playback, music etc.
• Allow regular non-cpu-intense PC tasks such as surf the web, email etc.

Hardware

• Epia SP 13000 (Motherboard)
• Haupauge WinTV 250 pci-card (TV-card, includes a remote)
• Seagate Barracuda 120Gb 7200rpm (Harddisk)
• 1Gb of RAM
• Panasonic Slimline Combined DVD and CD (both read and write) slot-load
• PC case that integrates nicely with my other stereo equipment
• Remote keyboard and mouse (still to be decided upon)

Software

• Ubuntu Linux
• MythTV
• Mplayer
• XMLTV - for grabbing TV information of the net
• LIRC - for listing to IR-devices