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January 24, 2004

Last week I finally completed building my STeVo and overall the system is working quite well. However, I still need to do some minor tweaks. Yet I wanted to express a few of my initial observations and install notes for those of you interested in building one these boxes yourself... more here

December 30, 2003

I finally took the plunge and ordered the following hardware for what my wife has officially called STeVo. Once I receive all the equipment, I'll move onto the next step of putting it all together and hope it works (fingers crossed)!

STeVo System Design

CPU: AMD ATHLON XP 2600+ 512K-333FSB
Motherboard: Asus ATX MBD A7N8X/DELUX
- w/NForce? 2 chipset and on board:
  - DD/DTS audio
  - Ethernet
  - Firewire/1394
  - USB 2.0
  - Ultra ATA 133 and Serial ATA for future upgrades
  - RAID
- Techdepot
RAM: SimpleTech? SVM-DDR2700?/256 256MB PC2700? Non-ECC DDR 184pin DIMM
Hard Drive: Maxtor L01P120? 7200 RPM 120 GB Hard Drive
Power Supply: At lesat a 300 Watt power supply (already have)
Video: NVIDIA GEFORCE4? TI4200? AGP 8X-128MB DDR TV DVD
TV Tuner Card: Hauppauge WINTV-PVR 250 (PCI) Remote
- 125 channel Stereo TV-Tuner

Articles

Building A Low-Budget TiVo Substitute? -- Ask Slashdot Thread
Build It: A Speedy PC for $800 -- Extreme Tech Article on building an all-around system for $800
The State of Home-Brew PVRs on Linux -- Joe Stump over on the Oreilly DevCenter? puts together a good well-rounded overview Linux-based PVRs?
Build your own systems and save -- InfoWorld? Article on building your own system
Building a Wireless Home Media Network Server -- ExtremeTech? article with a focus on using the SnapStream? Personal Video Station 3.0
Rolling Your Own Tivo -- ExtremeTech? article on building your own Media Center PC (a bit dated: 11/12/2002)
Linux HTPC How-to -- Home Theater PC HOWTO

Guides

PVR User Install Guides -- installation guides written by users who have built their own PVR

Software

SageTV -- Commercial PVR Software (Windows 98, 2000, XP)
- SageTV? can also be purchased as a bundle with the Hauppauge WinTV? PVR cards (Nice!)
MythTV -- Open-source homebrew PVR project
Freevo -- Freevo is an open-source digital video jukebox (PVR, DVR) based on Linux in addition to a number of open-source audio/video tools
SnapStream -- Commercial PVR Software (Winodws XP)
KnoppMyth -- Bootable Install CD for MythTV? based on Knoppix
ETV personal video recorder -- Similar to MythTV? with a stronger focus on European TV (ealy Alpha)

Hardware

List of Hauppauge products
Pinnacle Systems - ShowCenter -- Post from PVRBlog? about the new Pinnacle ShowCenter? network media device
EyeTV 300 Digital Video Recorder -- Building your own PVR is great - but I'm still really attracted to the EyeTV? for the Mac - now with Firewire!

Notes on Building your own Personal Video Recorder [PVR]

I've decided to build my own PVR (personal video recorder) or DVR (digital video recorder), which is similar to commercial appliances such as TiVo and ReplayTV. I'll use this space to collect information and document my progress.

StevenHatch -- June 19, 2004, at 06:08 PM

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