Personally I use an Asus EEEbox, I think the model # is an EB1012P. I only had to do a few well documented workarounds to get HDMI working properly out of the box. Since openelec comes with XBMC that solves that. I know there's a mame emulator add-on that I've not personally used, and it has an interface for PVR, <a href="http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=OpenELEC_Addons_(official)">http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=OpenELEC_Addons_(official)</a> ) unless I'm way off my rocker(extremely likely). I ended up buying a generic windows media PC remote and plugging it in, and it just works. Unfortunately that Asus doesn't have any way of capturing TV or I'd be using the TV headend addon myself.<div>
<br></div><div>I will warn you, this made me add 16 TB's of storage in my basement and I'm planning on adding another 16 later this year. My wife won't let me delete any of our TV, and we turned every DVD/Blu-Ray we owned into digital form, way easier to keep track of this way, we even moved our respective music collections onto this thing just to have all of our media in one spot.<div>
<br></div><div>The only issue I ran into was a small performance hit since openelec uses sqlite, while not normally a problem the shear amount of information the media we have has with it slowed it down noticeably, that could have been the ancient SSD I had it on (pre-trim) or the old laptop drive it was on dying. I never figured it out, I just ended up putting it on a 2GB SSD card and pointing the database elsewhere.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I can't say how openelec performs against mythtv, but I can say it's really small, and for waht I'm using it for..extremely fast.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Sean Leblanc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seanleblanc@comcast.net" target="_blank">seanleblanc@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Anyone out there that has built - or bought - HTPC systems?<br>
<br>
Anyone have hardware/software to recommend? I'd like to use some flavor of Linux, and I know for sure I'd want to run MAME and other emulators on it.<br>
<br>
I think I'd also like to use MythTV as a front-end and probably XBMC, maybe, too? The typical use case would be playing video files.<br>
<br>
I'm a little out of touch on which flavor of Linux might be the "best" fit for this, though. I need something that doesn't require much fuss, but doesn't have too much cruft slowing it down, either...<br>
<br>
<br>
_______________________________________________<br>
clue mailing list: <a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br>
For information, account preferences, or to unsubscribe see:<br>
<a href="http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue" target="_blank">http://cluedenver.org/mailman/listinfo/clue</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br>
</div></div>