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MythTV vs. MCE 2005 : A fight to the death
I have been running MythTV (knoppmyth) since June 2005. It rules. It was tricky to get set up, I was rusty on my Linux admin skills, its been years since I really used it. There were a few things about myth that I wasn't really into, but I lived with.
- couldn't get my 802.11g nic card to work in Linux
- I had a hard time playing video files over the network from my windows 2000 computer up stairs
- Couldn't get the build in media player to play work that well (mplayer)
- NES emulation wasn't that great
- Hard to get the Hauppauge 350 remote to work
- I had to hard time redirecting the output of the media player to the Hauppauge 350 audio out
- Difficult redirecting the output of the computer to always go to the TV
I'm not complaining, it was fun to figure this stuff out. It took a really long time, and some of it I never
really figured out. My MythTv setup was awesome for recording TV. I'm proud of it, and I love it.
Earlier this month a guy at my work is a Microsoft die hard (he runs a .Net developers group) he got me a demo copy of windows media center 2005 to check out. I figured what the hell, I had some extra money (my wife just started working as a registered nur$e), I'll build a fairly simple MCE box and put it up against my mythTV.
To make this interesting, I decided to make this interesting, After install and testing, the winner computer stays, the losers OS gets flipped. I was willing to put my myth system on the line and check it out against "windows media center 2005 roll up 2" (damn that's a long name).
Here is the cheap machine that I built for the MCE
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