[BillingsLUG] Seeking advice for a "media center" project

[dan]

add XBMC with MythTV backend.  XBMC can run on a jailbroken appletv, ipad,
ipod, windows, linux, and is pretty solid.  It can connect to MythTV backend
for live streams.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have a friend (that I go eat pizza for lunch with every Wednesday) who is
> wanting to setup a media center at home.  He isn't yet a Linux user.  I'm
> pretty low tech at home... have only standard def TV and have been using a
> TiVo for about 10 years now... so I'm pretty ignorant on the subject.
>
> He (Pat) is going to only have broadcast TV for input and would like to
> view his video collection and online video sources... but realizes that some
> may require a video conversion step.
>
> There are just so many options out there.  Media appliances, Roku, MythTV,
> etc. What are people using and what are they happy with?  What
> recommendations do you have?
>
> TYL,
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