RE: New Xtreme X38HD Multimedia Player

[Marcus Warrington <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you looked at GBPVR. I'm currently trialing  it side by side with
my t=
rusty TiVo. It works pretty well, although I don't use it as a front end ,
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just a scheduling (via web interface) and recording service, I then use
XBM=
C to playback.

I did use MythTV for a while but wanted to try and reduce the number of
mac=
hines I had running. GBPVR runs on windows as a service, so I've built a
si=
ngle cheap machine (AMD 4Ghz Dual core, 3GigRAM, Pinnacle 3010xi Dual DVBT
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card), that runs as my XLobby front end (mainly MP3 juke box) and PVR
recor=
ding service, and has 2 Virtual machines running on it , one for 
Downloads=
(torrents etc) and the other as a Reverse Proxy (SSL Explorer) to allow me=
secure access to my home network from the internet.

The pinnacle 3010xi card is pretty good (if you have PCI-E) as its VERY
che=
ap (<=A320) and has 2 Digital tuners on board. To use with GBPVR simply
use=
the Blackgold drivers rather than the Pinnacle ones. I'm about to order an=
other so that I can have a total of 4 tuners (some people on the GBPVR
foru=
ms report having up to 7 tuners!). The current release of GBPVR also
suppor=
ts stream recording allowing multiple programs can be recorded from a
singl=
e tuner if they are on the same mux. Not tried it myself yet but sounds
int=
eresting..

Marcus
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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of S=
imon McCaughey
Sent: 10 November 2008 19:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] New Xtreme X38HD Multimedia Player


2008/11/10 Juan <jvankausa@xxxxxxx<mailto:jvankausa%40gmail.com>>:
> Yes, it looks cool but it lacks of a digital tuner. There are media
> tanks out there that includes tuners, so besides browsing all your
> media you can also have a pvr TiVo like machine all in one solution.
>

Any examples of one like that? I'm looking to replace the trusty TiVo
and XBMC with one box, but having looked extensively at SageTV and
MythTv I'm not reqdy to jump yet...
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Regards

Simon



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