Which one of the Linux projects would you suggest and why? MythTV, Freevo or something else? Is CentOS good for such task or I should better use some more bleeding edge distribution like Fedora?
As a first project, check out mythdora. It is a Fedora based MythTV 'distro'. I installed it as a demo for a LUG (ie, in less than 2 hours). Also check the hardware discussions on the mythtv wiki/website.
May also want to check out Linux MCE...it is *very* slick, very easy to install.
So basically suggestion is MythTV not Freevo!?
And I checked hardware suggestions for both projects. And more or less they are clear. Also saw that 1080p stream decoding needs quite decent CPU.
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