• DTV Forum Australia (Powered by Invision Power Board)
  A quite decent forum about home theatre stuff in Australia. They've got decent links to squeezebox/pinnacle soundbridge etc.
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• Logitech Harmony Model 880 Advanced Universal Remote: Review by Chris Boylan on BigPictureBigSound
  With HDTV, DVD, DVD-A, SACD, CD, PVR, LCD, DLP, DTS, and other fun home theater acronyms, the more technology marches forward, the more complicated our home theater systems get. Yes, there are simple one-brand "home theater in a box" units that can be controlled by one remote. But the fact is that if your goal is to build a flexible high performance home theater, you’re going to end up with multiple black or silver boxes each contributing its own specialized part to the glorious whole. So how do you, and other family members for that matter, operate all of these various components without an advanced degree in electronic engineering? That’s where Logitech’s Harmony 880 remote comes in.
  Can Harmony's latest model of internet-powered universal remotes address the shortcomings of its predecessors while maintaining their benefits? You'll find out here.
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• MythTV - Mailing List Archive | Users
  Heaps of handy stuff on SAMBA sharing and things just type search for SAMBA. User mailing list archive for MythTV. The more general mailing list archive can be found here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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  Note: The IRC channel is here: irc://irc.freenode.net/mythtv-users
• SUSE 10.0/10.1 Multimedia
  A Media Centre allows you to hold all of your digital media like a giant jukebox, all accessable via your remote control. MythTV is probably the best Media Centre available at the moment for Digital TV. I have had it in production for over a year now and have used it every day. Many thanks to Issac Richards the maintainer and all the active developers.
  Suse Linux 10.0/10.1 and Multimedia
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  Note: A rather good guide to using mythtv and setting up multimedia stuff in the home generally. He claim mythtv can stream off samba nas shares... Here's another good link: http://www.acaciaclose.co.uk/129538/index.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*
• TViX HD M-5000U Media Player - In AVS Forum > Digital Video & Audio Devices > Digital Media Servers & Content Streamers
  Discussion of various uses of the TViX HD M-5000U. In particular the streaming of stuff off a NAS.
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  Note: Looks like a good forum, probably worthwhile having a poke around here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=39
• Connecting your PC to your TV
  Whether you want to browse your computer on your TV screen and watch movies stored in your computer on your TV, or you want to do the opposite (like watching your favorite TV shows on your PC), this article discusses the how-to as well as the benefits and the problems of each option (and what you can do to get around them). You may also want to do both (record your favorite shows on your PC but watch them on your TV). Whichever of these you're trying to do, the intention of this article is to provide a concise explanation of how to converge your TV with your PC.
  There are many different ways of connecting your PC to your TV. This article explores the many ways.
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• EPG Data Sources for Australia
  Many programs have some form of Electronic Programme Guide, or EPG. They need to get the data for the guide from somewhere, and because the data comes from different sources in different geographical locations, people have separated the uses of the data from the gathering of the data. XMLTV is a format for transferring EPG data. This page lists programs that gather EPG data for Australian TV channels. Programs that use XMLTV (see description below) need to get their data from somewhere. Some companies will sell you a direct XMLTV data feed. Other people use a program known as a grabber or scraper to gather data from the web and convert it into the XMLTV format.
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• Foxconn 760GXK8MC-RS
  Possible hardware choice for htpc, $49! at MSY.
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  Note: This guy: http://www.overclockers.com.au/wiki/Basic_HTPC_Part_List recommends: http://www.foxconnchannel.com/Product/motherboard_detail.aspx?ID=en-us0000174 Very similar, seems to take a wider variety of chips.
• GeeXboX Project
  GeeXboX is a media center software suite for personal computers, based on Linux and MPlayer, and implemented as a Live CD. As such, the system does not need to be permanently installed to a hard drive, as most modern operating systems would; instead, the computer can be rebooted with the GeeXboX CD when media playback is desired. This is a reasonable approach for who do not need media playback services while performing other tasks with the same computer, for users who wish to repurpose older computers as media centers, and for those seeking a free alternative to Windows XP Media Center Edition.
  GeeXboX Homepage : a free software media center for Linux
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• HTPC Forums
  An online discussion community dedicated to the HTPC and related things.
  An online discussion community dedicated to the HTPC and related things.
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• Installing TwonkyMedia 3.1 on an NSLU2
  This site details how to install TwonkyMedia 3.1 on a LinkSys NSLU2. The first time I did it was a nightmare, which I described in this post to the TwonkyVision forum. In retrospect I did too much research, which lead to lots of conflicting advice — probably much of it out of date. TwonkyVision may one day make this recipe obsolete or unnecessary, but until then these are "tried and true" recipes, which I hope you'll benefit from.
  The intention of this wiki is to comp...
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  Note: If you're looking for a low-cost, low-noise, low-energy-consumption Media Server for your home or business (hint: a pub or restaurant), here it be. You need a Linksys NSLU2 ($80 - $100), a USB hard drive ($60-$150), TwonkyMedia 3.1 ($35-$53), a few bits of free software, and — if music playback is y ...moreour primary interest — a UPnP music player like the Roku SoundBridge ($150).
• knoppmyth
  KnoppMyth is my attempt at making the Linux and MythTV installation as trivial as possible. The current release is Release 5 C7. For changes, take a look at the changelog. Installation instructions for the frontend(runs off of the CD! :) , auto install, auto upgrade and manual install.
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• LinHES (based on KnoppMyth) - My Settop Box
  LinHES is what I called my home entertainment system. LinHES is of course based on KnoppMyth, but the setup I describe can be accomplished with any Linux distro and MythTV. My setup consists of a master and slave backend. My master backend is in my bedroom and it is used to store all recorded programs. My slave backend is in my living room. It's primary function is to entertainment visitors. Both backends are hooked up to a TV via, TV out(SVIDEO). SBE is also hooked to a Kenwood receiver w/ surround(works w/o additional tweaking!). NFS is used to share the files between the systems.
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• MythTV - Installing and using MythTV
  Initially, installation of MythTV seems like a huge task. There are lots of dependencies, and various distributions seem to do the same thing different ways. This document will attempt to give general installation instructions, as well as including distribution-specific instructions where necessary.
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• People talking about their different media centre setups - TwonkyVision UPnP AV Media Server Forum
  TwonkyVision UPnP AV Media Server Forum Index -> TwonkyVision MediaServer A bunch of people talking about they're different streaming setups. 1- What do you use TwonkyVision for: streaming Music and/or Pictures and/or Videos and/or Internet Radios? 2- What Server(s) are you using? 3- What Client device(s) are you using?
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• StreamBOX-LiveCD
  What is StreamBOX-LiveCD? StreamBOX-LiveCD is a selfmade, KNOPPIX based Boot-CD, which is specially designed to stream MP3. Also there are some programs to stream in the OGG-Vorbis-Format. If you ask, why I reinvented the wheel, because you know of the very nice dyne:bolic project, please read my Dyne:bolic page. Concrete the following programs should help to get the streaming working...: * Dstream (selfmade, Dialog based script to stream with Freestream) * Tstream (selfmade, like Dstream, but with dump to the harddrive) * OGGstream (building the configfiles for darkice or ices...) * Freestream * Icecast Server I + II * Darkice * Ices2 * xmms-crossfade
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  Note: Also I wrote a detailled streaming-howto, which should teach people to stream over the internet very easily. You can grab this document as a postscript-file to print.
• Ultimate HTPC motherboard? Home Theater Computers
  A small discussion on what kind of motherboard is best. Althought they talk about some interesting software too.
  Ultimate HTPC motherboard? Home Theater Computers
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  Note: the general forum on htpc (Home Theater Computers (HTPC) Media Center PC and Computer Audio/Video Hardware and Software) threads is here: http://www.wizdforums.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=31

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