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Serial Port IR Blaster HOWTO 
Describes how to setup a serial port IR Blaster. This HOWTO was originally targeted for knoppmyth control of a DISH receiver with homebrew IR Blaster but has since grown to include a huge variety of configurations.
Added on: 14-Jan-2005 | hits: 733 | Rating: 10 (1 Vote)
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Ask Slashdot article: Building A Low-Budget TiVo Substitute?
thepuma writes "Since I'm cheap, and don't want to pay monthly fees to Tivo, I am researching building my own low-budget Personal Video Recorder and player. Free software options include Freevo and MythTV. Hardware options are the main cost factor. How would you go about building the perfect low-budget PVR?" We've looked at similar questions before, but the guts of such a system (both hardware and software) have been improving -- MythTV, for instance, now supports Hauppauge's PVR-350 card. How would you build a system like this now?"
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 7596 | Rating: 6 (1 Vote)
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ATI MPEG encoding guide
digitalfaq.com
CAPTURE GUIDES -> Capturing MPEG with an ATI card
This guide will make you a perfect quality DVD-compliant MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 video that is ready for DVD authoring. I made it mainly for cartoon collectors (we have interlace issues to deal with), but it should work just fine on movies, direct tv captures and home movies.
Added on: 14-Jun-2004 | hits: 1488 | Rating: 6 (2 Votes)
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Hauppauge PVR card newbie guide
htpcnews.com user, SpHeRe31459, writes \"Okay the same questions keep coming up and being answered so once-and-for-all here are the differences between all the Hauppauge PVR card options, most importantly is the reoccurring PVR-250 versus PVR-350 question.\" Click the link for SpHeRe31459\'s Hauppauge PVR card newbie guide
Added on: 02-Jun-2004 | hits: 1919 | Rating: 5 (1 Vote)
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ExtemeTech Build It: Extreme Personal Video Recorder
The Living Room PC. That promised land of computing, where our entertainment centers get intelligent, and PCs get super-easy to use. Yeah, right. Although we're not quite there yet, we are getting ever closer to that day when every family member, not just the house's sysadmin (you, probably) can fire up the PC media appliance, access stored music, video, and photos, and record television off the air, cable or from webcasts. Soon we'll be able to see this device as just another component in the rack.
The good news is that you can build that appliance today...
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 3915
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ExtremeTech - Build it: Rolling Your Own Tivo
The Home Entertainment PC Revisited
Early in the year, we wrote about building your own home theater PC. At that time, we focused mainly on the hardware, plus the issues of integrating the pieces into a cohesive whole (part 1 and part 2). Recently, we reviewed the Shuttle SB51G and suggested that it might be the core of a compact HTPC.
You don't actually need a full-on home theater to take advantage of one of these systems – they can make a great addition to even a simple home audio and video setup in a dorm room, apartment or house.
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 1476
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ExtremeTech Building a Home Theater PC
The Home Theater PC (HTPC) is a different animal. It can have multiple goals, some of which are orthogonal to others. Here's what a good home theater PC can do:
* Be a repository for your CD collection
* Act as a digital scaler and de-interlacing platform for DVD playback
* Create a TIVO or Replay-TV type of unit that allows for time-shifted viewing of
your favorite TV shows
* Be an HDTV tuner, including time-shifting HDTV viewing
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 1459
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Yahoo News/Ziff Davis Build your own Tivo
Build Your Own Tivo
Tue Nov 25,10:20 AM ET
Jim Louderback - ExtremeTech
When I was younger, I used to love making Heathkits – electronics hobby sets -- with my Dad. We built all manner of useless electronic appliances, including a home intercom system, speakers and even a receiver. One that was useful – and probably the world's first digital alarm clock – still survives.
Maybe you're adventurous, too. Maybe you like building things. Maybe you just want flexibility. Those are all really good reasons to build your own TiVo-like device around a PC platform. Just don't expect to save money doing it.
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 701
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Wired Article: Building a TiVo, a Step at a Time
Building a TiVo, a Step at a Time
By Leander Kahney |
02:00 AM Jun. 04, 2003 PT
Forget TiVo and ReplayTV. If you want a really super-duper digital video recorder, you have to build your own.
All you need is knowledge of Linux, plenty of cash for hardware and, if anything goes wrong, hundreds of hours to troubleshoot the device.
Thanks to several open-source projects, you can build your own digital video recorder that will blow boxes from TiVo and ReplayTV right off the shelf.
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 1034
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Mini-itx (Via small factor PC's) 101
What is Mini-ITX?
Mini-ITX is a motherboard form factor created by VIA. Motherboards are available from VIA, and other manufacturers such as Lucky Star.
Mini-ITX motherboards have a processor soldered to the board and a rich supporting chipset providing networking, graphics and sound. This means that by adding just some memory, a hard drive and a power supply, you have a full computer. You might want to add a case, but this is optional ;)
Mini-ITX motherboards are very cheap. But they are powerful enough to play back full screen video through their monitor or TV output.
Mini-ITX motherboards are very small. The specification requires that the boards are 170mm x 170mm (6.75" x 6.75")
Added on: 09-Jan-2004 | hits: 1181
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