Re: Alternative to MCE?

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My vote goes with GBPVR (http://www.gbpvr.com) running on Windows
XP, P4
2.4, 1GB RAM and 4 tuner cards.

After struggling with MythTV for a few weeks and ruling out MCE as at the
time it's multi-tuner support was rubbish (not sure now though if this is
better?), I stumbled across GBPVR and have now been running it for around 8
months and not looked back.  Stable, actively developed and supported, and
high WAF.  Web interface and all sorts of 3rd party plugins available.

Mine runs headless in node zero with PC / XBMC / MVP clients around the
house.


Martyn


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Shew" <pslists@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Alternative to MCE?


Hear hear. 512MB. 1.8 AMD. Three freeview cards. Two XBMC  and two MVPMC
front ends. It's the networked option that I like.

Pete

LeeUKHA wrote:
> I think you just broke your argument there...
>
> "It's been running nicely on a Dual Core with 4GB of
RAM...."
>
> Right then, I'll just chuck my year old MythTV box in the bin and
spend
> a grand on a new one with Vista????
>
> Or I could just carry on using MythTV as it is, with it's weedy 1.8GHz
> single core with 512MB of RAM.
> It still manages to record three shows at once, watch a recorded one,
> and stream another to a PC upstairs...
> While having a fairly high WAF score...
>
> £200 for Vista, err, no thanks....
>
>
>
>> Ooh, that's a balanced article, eh?
>>
>> I've been running Vista on two machines since November; a decent
>> dual-core
>> Dell Precision 9200 with 4GB RAM and a bottom-of-the-range Dell
Inspiron
>> 1300 laptop with 1GB RAM.
>>
>> The Vista experience on them is great, Media Center included
(though I've
>> not got TV cards in either of them). Can't recommend it highly
enough.
>>
>> Driver support is better than it was when XP was launched, IMO.
>>
>> Lots of people whinge about UAC. They tend to be the ones who
think that
>> it's a good idea to do everything with administrative privileges.
I find
>> UAC
>> to be one of the best features.
>>
>> I'd suggest upping the RAM to 1 or 2GB and adding a pen drive for
>> ReadyBoost.
>>
>> Then, enjoy. I don't think you'll find better.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>
>
>



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