A new lease of life for an old PC

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  • trashedteen
    Newbie
    • Feb 2012
    • 6
    #1

    A new lease of life for an old PC

    So I was clearing out the house the other day and I spotted my old PC laying in the office. Thinking this was a bit of a waste I decided there must be something I can do with it and after a bit of research I've decided I'm going to transform it into a Media PC.

    I've been looking around the web for a few days now for information and I find myself completely perplexed by the numbers of software options available.

    I want to use the PC for watching/recording live TV (possibly HD?), music, photos and a blu-ray player. So with that in mind, what is my best option? I've looked into ubuntu and mythTV but I just can't get my head around it all!

    Hope you can help
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    • Shady
      Shite Link King
      • Dec 2010
      • 6404
      #2
      whats the spec as of now?
      Fave replies from various threads

      1: What the fff is all that about??? All that crap below your reply I mean, get a life mate
      2: no info on google abt the pace sv5 rang asda they have no idea what i was talking about,
      3: Your total contribution to this forum, bordering on trolling, seems to have been a collection of snipes, one liners & asterisked expletives

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        • trashedteen
          Newbie
          • Feb 2012
          • 6
          #3
          Intel Core 2 Duo 3.2 Ghz
          2GB DDR2 RAM
          Nvidia 7900GTX video card
          500gb hdd
          standard dvd/rw

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            • trashedteen
              Newbie
              • Feb 2012
              • 6
              #4
              So, would I be able to run a decent PVR from this spec?

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                • TheCoder
                  DK Veteran
                  • Jun 2011
                  • 693
                  #5
                  Originally posted by trashedteen
                  So, would I be able to run a decent PVR from this spec?
                  Thats way beyond whats needed for a pvr. Last time I played around with this stuff it was on a AMD Athlon 1.6GHz with 1Gig Ram and 80Gig hard drive and that was more than adequate to the job. I used two dvb-s cards to give watch one/record one functionality and the drive gave me around 35 hours recording (HD would obviously consume disk space quicker - I'd guestimate around 4* but depends on compression format used).
                  Last edited by TheCoder; 7 February, 2012, 23:49.

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                    • trashedteen
                      Newbie
                      • Feb 2012
                      • 6
                      #6
                      Brilliant, thanks for the reply. So with that in mind:

                      Can I configure it to receive HD channels?
                      Will it play blu-ray properly?
                      Can I output HD audio to my receiver?
                      What is the best software to run it all on?

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