The PC allocated for the task of being my HTPC was a 1.25GHz piece. Even with an updated graphics ard, added RAM and SATA disks the machine was too slow to run MediaPortal 1.0 RC3. Minimal requirement was 1.4 GHz. So I purchased a new machine. A Packard Bell AMD X3 based fairly look looking […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It has to be said; things don’t work! – My MythTV set-up fails in a very early stage. The Twinhan 3030 card isn’t properly detected and never becomes operational. The Linux driver on the Twinhan web are for Fedora and I had Ubuntu. There are alternative ones but I failed to get them operational. Even […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s obviously so that setting up a PC with the opportunity to obtain card information from a reader on another unit is more of a challenge than anticipated from start. These things are not typically done by the people who are big fans of bling bling and fancy user interfaces. Three letter abbreviations, ranges of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have planned to set up a Home Theatre PC for years now but never done so, for several reasons. There are many options but let’s start with my choices; basing it on Linux or Windows. Mythbuntu is a Linux distribution that is supposed to facilitate a HTPC via a plug and play installation. For […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…