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Category: Start / PVR Project ExamplesLinks to users DIY PVR or Home Theater PC project examples. Have a site or pictures of your project? Please submit the link so others can learn by your example! Sort links by: Title ( + | - ) Date ( + | - ) Rating ( + | - ) Popularity ( + | - )
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Rich's Canadian HTPC 
have built a PVR and made it work with Star Choice. I used XP and GB-PVR which works great. HTPC Hardware
Intel GB850 motherboard with onboard audio
1.7ghz Pentium 4 CPU with stock Intel fansink
384M RDRAM
160gb Seagate 7200 rpm drive
Hauppauge PVR150 video/audio capture card
ATI Rage128 All-in-Wonder 32M graphics card
Generic ATX mid tower chassis with 300watt power supply
Toshiba DVD ROM drive
Added on: 08-Apr-2005 | hits: 552
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Super VCR Mod
My first attempt at building a real live home made PVR/HTPC from a case not intended for a personal computer (a VCR if wasn't obvious). Still a work in progress and very close to completion, this PVR will take the form of a 20+ year-old VHS machine. As a goal the completed project will include the original mechanical tape counter that spins and a small LCD screen where the digitial clock used to be.
Added on: 18-Dec-2004 | hits: 894
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Random Abstracts PVR project
I\'ve been using Snapstream\'s Beyond TV3 for over a month now. I also purchased the Snapstream Firefly Remote. I am using a non hardware encoding, Avermedia TV Studio card to record my MPEG2 streams. I use the S-Video output on my ATI Radeon 9700Pro to display the monitors 1024x768 output on my27inch Sony Wega. The Snapstream remote is RF based and connects to my PCs USB port.
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 1399
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Blake's MythTV Box
Blake's MythTV Box
Sharing my rewarding adventure with MythTV... some good info, tips and tweaks and real life experience with mythTV
Added on: 15-Mar-2005 | hits: 2546 | Rating: 2 (1 Vote)
 
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Duncan's Windows XP PVR-in-a-radio
Not satisfied with the current PVR offerings from TiVo, ReplayTV, nor Windows Media Center (not to mention associated fees), The Last Minute decided to build their own personal video recorder, using Windows XP Pro, with SageTV and Zap2it as a program guide and recording software. They’ve even managed to set their recorder to automatically detect and skip commercials, and they are still able to surf the Web via TV, since it is still Windows, afterall. And the big bonus? They jammed it in an old-school lookin’ radio just for kicks. Props, props
Added on: 05-Apr-2005 | hits: 2601 | Rating: 10 (1 Vote)
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My Freevo HTPC Box
I decided to build my own HTPC in mid 2002. I first got it working in early 2003 and improved the software every now and then (switched from Windows to Debian, to Windows, to Debian, to Mandrake).
Added on: 16-Jun-2004 | hits: 2755
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John Chapman's PVR Project
I stuggled for weeks with MythTV despite excellent help.
In the end I tried the SageTV trial and had it working in half a day
Added on: 12-Sep-2004 | hits: 2895
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Building a Linux-based time-shifting box
This is one of the original ground breaking attempts at diy pvr... well it's the first one I saw via a link on slashdot. It's a good primer for those of you willing to try linux and have lower horsepower machines to work with.
Building a Linux-based time-shifting box
NOTE:
This document is still a work in progress, as is my TV time-shifting box. They both "work," but there is still room for improvement. The time-shifting box works fine, but it still could use a spiffy user interface. Likewise, this document contains a lot of information, but I expect that it will grow significantly over time. Every time I look at this I find myself realizing that I forgot to discuss something. Send me an email if there are subjects you would like me to address. I'll see what I can do.
Added on: 16-Jan-2004 | hits: 3098
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Owens Photolog Building a PVR
Also see his progress via his updates scroll around his technical category archive to get a sense of the refinements he\'s made and issues he\'s had.
He\'s got an extensive price list of the materials he used. also of note he used something other than mini-itx and hauppauge pvr x50 cards... so that\'s of interest, eh?
Added on: 13-Jan-2004 | hits: 3453
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Homebrew PVR : Communications From Elsewhere
Homebrew PVR : Communications From Elsewhere
I\\\'ve been wanting to replace my aging Tivo for a while now. It\\\'s developed an encoder bug which runs a faint blue line from top to bottom around 1/3 of the way in from the left. It\\\'s annoying. (And since the first thing I did when I bought my Tivo was open it up and add another hard drive, it\\\'s well out of warranty.)
A new 80-hour Tivo with a lifetime service subscription costs $650. If I want to add the Home Media Option which allows me to play mp3s, look at photos, and schedule recordings over the internet, that\\\'s another $100. I love Tivo; my experience with the series-1 model has been great. It really did change the way I watch TV, and I don\\\'t want to go back to watching TV without something Tivo-like. But I bet I can build a comparable machine for less than $750. (Which is, coincidentally, the amount I just unexpectedly sold a domain name for. It\\\'s kismet, I tell you.) And since it\\\'ll be open-source software driving it, I can make changes if I don\\\'t like the way it works.
Added on: 17-Jan-2004 | hits: 3539
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