Long time no see

March 20, 2008

Ah finally, fetched to box for today, and put it all together. System is already sitting on my TV shelf however some work is still needed…
- second tuner missing (I think I get a second Artec T14 as it seems to work fine)
- antenna splitter needs some work (I’ll put a three way (-8dB) splitter inside the box with one output going out thru the bracket for daisy chaining. This allows placing the two separate USB tuners inside the box)
- libcss needs to be installed for DVD playback
- SPDIF output not configured

Open questions
- check if audio thru HDMI is doable


HTPC (It’s been a while)

January 25, 2008

No excuses but it has been quite busy time.. anyway the TV arrived in few more days so they didn’t make the 3-5 (work)days but about 7 not too bad.

Now as the ‘output device’ is in order the feeding side needs some attention so I decided to build a HTPC with MythTV. So first targets..
- able to do 1080p
- preferably no separate graphics card
- gig E
- plenty of storage
- DVDRW
- DVB-T tuner(s) (one for start, two later)
- DVB-S tuner possibility (I have dish)
- as quiet as possible
- looks nice (as family approval is needed)

As few of my fellow workmates have such setups already I was recommended to get a Gigabyte GA-G33M-S2H motherboard, the thing is that it’s not available anymore so had to change plans somewhat.

Current plan (as ordered)
MB: ASUS P5E-VM HDMI (small, plenty of features, decent graphics with HDMI on board)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E8200 (2.66Mhz 6MB L2)
MEM: 2GB DDR2 800
DISK: SATA II 500GB
DVDRW: SATA 20x
Power: Nexus NX-9003 SFB (Silent)
keyb: Ione Scorpius P20 (nice little wireless keyb+stick combo)
DVB-T tuner:”Artec T-14 based” (Have this one already, so let’s try that first)

Let’s see when things arrive, delivery times range from few days up to over 4 weeks… most component dealers sell what they don’t have.


New to this

December 31, 2007

Ah, it’s soon 2008 so I decided to join the vast group of bloggers. I have no idea where to go from here but let’s see…