<div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Sean,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My favorite HTPC/arcade setup to date used a FoxConn barebone system, a dual-coax HD Homerun, and an X Arcade dual joystick with glorious, glorious trackball. It ran Mythdora, subscribed to a scheduling service, and I could both watch and control it over the Internets.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px">You didn't specify why you want an HTPC, so I'm assuming you want something small, quiet, and responsive. You didn't specify what kind of video files, size, or how you intend to access them. Those are all important considerations, but the largest for me was the Wife Factor.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Courier New',courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">The obvious mistake in marrying me aside, she's a smart woman. When she sits down to watch her stories, though, she's not going to mess with restarting X, Apache, or troubleshooting stale NFS handles.</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Another important point is that Netflix and Amazon don't stream to Linux, nor do they apparently plan to. So, both of the PCs currently connected to my TVs run Windows, and my HD Homerun and X Arcade are collecting dust on the Bookshelf of Shattered Dreams. Plan accordingly.</font></div>
<div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">Mike</font></div><div><font face="Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br>
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<div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue@cluedenver.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue@cluedenver.org</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, July 6, 2012 2:44 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [clue] HTPC systems?<br> </font> </div><div><div> <br>
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>
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