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HTPC project, part 5

Just a quickie this time. Of course, I couldn't keep my promise of waiting with this until we move into the house. :-) I looked into it again, and this time, I actually got it working! It seemed to work pretty well now, and MythTV surely makes these IPTV streams more useful.

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HTPC Project, part 4

I found a quite interesting page here about IPTV and MythTV.

This document describes all the steps you need to take to get an IPTV-based provider added to MythTV. There are quite a few steps involved actually, more than what you might think.

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HTPC Project, Part 3

I found an interesting "HOWTO"-like document here: Installing MythTV on Debian Etch. I can recommend this HOWTO to anyone else interested in getting MythTV set up.

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HTPC Project, Part 2

(Warning: this posting doesn't really talk very much about the HTPC project per se; it is more of a general posting regarding the Linux installation and my specific situation with previous partitions causing some issues. If you're only interested about the HTPC project, skip this posting and go straight to part 3 where I'll start installing MythTV.)

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HTPC Project, Part 1

Hi,

This is my first posting in a series about my new HTPC, which I aim to construct and use for my family's home entertainment needs. Currently, I'm downloading the ISO of Debian 5.0.3, which means I can take some time to elaborate on the "hows, whys and whats" of this project.

We start with the "whys". Why build an HTPC, hasn't everyone done this already?

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