 LilYodaFeline with squirel personality disorderPremium
join:2004-09-02
Mountains
1 edit | reply to maartena
Re: Make your own! I think I tested the most popular PVR softwares (Sage, BeyondTV, MythTV, XP media center...) So far my favorite is still GB-PVR.
Freeware, there's a ton of plugins, and if all you're looking for is DivX playback, DVD, live TV, recording TV and MP3 playback, it's doing the job perfectly.
Add a MediaMVP from Hauppauge for $50, and you don't even have to live with a PC in the living room, the mediaMVP communicates with the GBPVR server running on your PC in the den/home office/basement/wherever...
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join:2005-12-31
Raleigh, NC
1 edit | I've got the same set up as LilYoda with GB-PVR on the home PC and media mvp STB, with one 160GB drive in the home PC for day-to-day recording and another for archiving content. Only problem now is that my kids fill up the hard drives all the time with their shows.
I've got wired ethernet drops throughout the house - didn't want to mess with wireless for video content. My kids move the media mvp to whichever TV they're watching at the time. How about that for multi-room DVR  I suppose I could buy another media mvp; they're cheap enough.
I don't take advantage of any of the transcoding stuff or divx. But I really like the plug-in for skipping commercials  |
