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Media PC

Overview:
To make a media center pc which allows for recording and playback of TV in addition to listening to MP3s, playing DVDs and viewing photos.

System:
Shuttle SB61G2
3.06GHz P4 (500MHz)
512MB 400MHz DDR RAM
Lite-on DVD ROM (With CD-R capability)
Nebula DigiTV PCI Card

Windows Software:
Nebula DigiTV
Meedio

Windows Media Center 2005 Edition:
I have recently installed Windows Media Center 2005 Edition as the drivers for my digital tv card have become available from nebula-electronics.
Angus Logan Experiences setting up Windows Media Center 2005
Channel E4 does not show up in the guide as a viewable station
Build a silent Media Center - includes reg hack for standby wakeup using usb remote
MCE Remote to wake your system from S3 Standby

Linux Software:
MythTv
MythTV for DBV

Post relating to Nebula Card with Myth TV:

OK. Got it working!

All I did in the end was start MythTVSetup, delete all the Channel Config settings and then rescan the channels. I think before I'd probably done things in the wrong order, eg. ran MythFillDatabase before Scanning. I'm not sure that the screens I alluded to that were missing actually exist anymore?

Anyhow, it's now working and I can watch TV in MythTV with sound.

Next step is to work out what it actually does and see if I can get the Nebula supplied Remote Control working.

For those interested, I found the combination of these 3 guides most helpful plus the post on the www.dtvforum.info forum from DCallan on how to setup the Nebula card...

MythTVology - good step by step starting at how to set up FC3. I was brand new to Linux and was able to follow this from blank hd through to working FC3 setup.
www.wilsonet.com

Jani Talikka page (Australian) - Australian specific so also helped greatly - refers to DVICO card I think but still relevant.
http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv.html

Martin Smith's guide - much more detail on how to make sure the DVB card is working.
http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb1.html

Just remember, 'The journey is the reward!'.

Thanks

Nick