[Cialug] Slightly OT: MythTV motherboard question

[David Champion]

That's a nifty little box. Could be a big seller for Apple. Wouldn't it 
be fun to have one of those hooked up to the 30" cinema display?

But for a media center :

- no tv-out (unless your TV has DVI or VGA input)
- only one 1/8" headphone / speaker output
- no spdif
- no surround sound
- no audio input
- no tv tuner expansion (unless it's external USB or FireWire)

Anyway, for Jon, did you see this /. story about Linux PVR's?

http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/12/027210&tid=129&tid=137&tid=106

-dc

Tom Pohl wrote:
> There is a nice port of mythfrontend for OSX so you could have a backend 
> running in the basement/closet and a mac mini hooked to the tv:
> http://www.apple.com/macmini/
> 
> -Tom
> 
> On Jan 11, 2005, at 6:28 PM, David Champion wrote:
> 
>> Bailey, Jonathan C wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking at building a MythTV box and was wondering what everyone 
>>> thought for a motherboard option. I'd like to build Socket A and on a 
>>> MicroATX board. I'm thinking of something like the Chaintech 7NIF2 
>>> which has onboard S-Video out. Should I go for a board with onboard 
>>> S-Video out or go for a cheaper board and use an add-on graphics card?
>>
>>
>> That would be a good choice - the nForce2 IGP chipset has good tv-out, 
>> and the sound processor is quite nice. It's even capable of doing some 
>> gaming - roughly equivalent of a GeForce 4 MX.
>>
>> If you're going to put this in your entertainment center: When 
>> building your case, choose something that's going to be quiet. Some 
>> people assume one small fan is better, but that's going so have a 
>> high-pitched whine. If you need fans, look for a large diameter, low 
>> RPM fan that moves the same amount of air.
>>
>> The "ultimate" way to do a mythtv system is to have the encoder/server 
>> in a closet or basement somewhere, and have a fanless box, like the 
>> "Hush" from mini-itx.com in your entertainment center. This is, of 
>> course, very expensive.
>>
>> -dc