Mythbuntu / XBMC + TV ?

[jellybeard999]

I'm fed up with 7MC issues and before I revert back to Vista for the time being, I thought I'd give the above a try.

I've briefly installed and used various distros, which would be simplest to get going with?

Machine spec:

E1400
nVidia GT520
Hauppauge Nova-T500
320gb HD
2gb RAM

Wants are:

Live and recorded TV
HD Audio bitstream
Bluray playback
Game emulation (SNES, megadrive, PSX etc)

The graphite/arclight skins look good for mythbuntu, and I've used the Windows version of XBMC and the front end appears to look similar, but couldn't get the tv working (via MPTV server), though I think this may be down to W7 as I have tuner issues there too.

Any pointers?

 

[jellybeard999]

http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500

Seems compatable it and it is a widely used card, so support shouldn't be a problem.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that my fileserver runs windows server; I presume samba will take care of this as I've had a standard ubuntu install accessing them fine from my netbook.

I've been advised to go with a ubuntu minmal install, xbmc and tvheadend - does anyone concur that's the best way to go? There doesn't seem much recent talk about mythtv, has it had its day?