HTPC Software ?

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Just waiting for some bits to arrive for an htpc im building, i fancy giving linux a go, ive downloaded the latest version of ubuntu.

Just wondering what the best software is for an HTPC
 
MythTV is something that springs to mind. I'm just about to start a linux HTPC. I've only to date spent £60 on my hardware. I seem to recall in the last edition of linux format there was a distro that installed everything you would need for a HTPC I will try to find it for you.
 
NicNac said:
I seem to recall in the last edition of linux format there was a distro that installed everything you would need for a HTPC I will try to find it for you.
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KnoppMyth is the most popular such distro but MythBuntu is gaining steam. For my MythTV boxes I installed Ubuntu Server and then installed Myth, my video and capture card drivers, X, Ratpoison, and the w32 codecs. All in all it came to about 1.2 GiB. I used LVM to make a large virtual partition out of a horde of old IDE disks I had lying around.
 
i've got mythtv running under ubuntu, actually was a bit of a pain to set up, but that was entirely due to me using a hauppauge winTV nova-t-500 tuner card which was poorly supported until recently.

so for the last almost a year i've struggled with fedora/opensuse, many, many kernel patches and tweaks to myth. however, the latest ubuntu ships with a recent enough kernel to have made all my problems disappear.

i found this site very usefull for setting things up.

and this one too
 
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