http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/htpc?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "htpc" on Netvouz http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/building-home-theater-pc-part-2.html Good set of links towards installing MythTV. So the first home theater software package I am going to try out is going to by MythTV for Linux. There are several different ways you can go to install MythTV depending on which Linux distribution you want to use. Computing > HTPC > Howto narky Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:03:50 GMT http://www.dtvforum.info/ A quite decent forum about home theatre stuff in Australia. They've got decent links to squeezebox/pinnacle soundbridge etc. Computing > HTPC narky Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:21:37 GMT http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/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/ Computing > HTPC narky Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:43:53 GMT http://www.acaciaclose.co.uk/28654/index.html 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. Computing > HTPC narky Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:02:23 GMT http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273206&highlight=open+samba+files I'm trying to connect to my file-server (Samba share) and play some media-files on it through Totem and Rythmbox. I can open and browse the share just fine in Nautilus (through gnome-vfs), but when I try to play a file directly off the server, Totem/Rythmbox just complains that it "Could not read resource". If I copy the file locally and play it, everything's fine and dandy. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:17:45 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-MythTV-ExtremeTech-Jarod-Wilson/dp/0470037873/sr=8-1/qid=1161943414/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-5214710-4016924?ie=UTF8&s=books Want control? Build your own MythTV PC. You don't do stuff like this to cut corners. You do it because you want what you want—and because it's fun. And a personalized MythTV is so much more than a PVR. You can combine HDTV, DVD, all kinds of music, radio, photos, even a plug-in videophone module. All you need is a little Linux know-how, assorted software components and plug-ins, an adventurous nature, and this book to tell you how it all goes together. Voilà—the entertainment hub of your dreams. Computing > HTPC > Books narky Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:07:55 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-MythTV-Building-Center/dp/1590597796/sr=8-2/qid=1161943414/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-5214710-4016924?ie=UTF8&s=books MythTV is a powerful open source personal video recorder (PVR) application that runs on Linux. Developed for several years by volunteers, it offers a stable and extensible platform for automating all of the things you would expect from a PVR, and much more. Practical MythTV: Open Source PVR and Media Center takes a project-based approach to implementing your own MythTV setup. You get to pick and choose the functionality you want to install for your PVR, and will learn the details of everything from selecting hardware to advanced customization. Computing > HTPC > Books narky Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:07:20 GMT http://createdigitalmotion.com/2006/06/28/building-a-portable-sff-pc-for-live-performance-part-1-assembly/ By Peter Kirn A howto guide on building a htpc for home visuals and gigs. Computing > HTPC > Howto narky Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:35:10 GMT http://sewelldirect.com/connecting-your-pc-to-your-tv.asp 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. Computing > HTPC narky Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:04:41 GMT http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/index.html 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. Computing > HTPC narky Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:02:34 GMT