JyriK's Symbian Diary

It's been a while

A few weeks has passed since a last entry, been thinking about building a personal video recorder / multimedia station from an "old" motherboard, that's been laying unused. It would have TiVo like capabilities, and a few extras, like mp3 player, picture viewer and be controllable with IR. It would be nice to find a Bluetooth software for my 7650 that could be used too. And if I ever get a good net connection in home (read broadband) instead GPRS, maybe control it through internet and 7650 - imagine, you are somewhere out and remember that there is something good coming from tv. Just get connected with 7650 and program your PC to record. And also with net connection it would be possible for the PVR-PC to display weather information and maybe some other net content.

I am now looking at two alternatives for the software, both would be running on Linux, and are opensource. First alternative is Freevo and the second is MythTV, both are looking good. Can't really decide, maybe have to test both, but the Freevo looks nicer at the moment. Now all I need is a little cash to buy WinTV PVR 350 or WinTV PVR 250 TV tuner card from Hauppage :D and Im almost there.

The system setup would include:
Celeron 600MHz
WinTV PVR 350 (260€) or 250 (195€)
Sapphire Radeon 7000 32MB SDR TV-Out (dirt cheap 38€)
256MB memory
Ethernet card
80GB Harddrive (Or maybe two)
CD-RW (maybe later on a DVD-RW)