FreeBSD as a HTPC!

Vladimir Grebenschikov vova at fbsd.ru
Thu Nov 27 07:53:19 PST 2008


On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:58 +0100, Anders Troback wrote:

> yes I'm talking about a Home Theater PC:-)
> 
> Well, I'm thinking about something like Linux MCE or Elisa!
> 
> I don't have a exact idea about how I want it because I don't know what
> to expect but I'm hoping that I will find something that a can squeeze
> down on a flash card or a usb drive (with TinyBSD or something) and
> have the media on the network!

Probably, you need something like, multimedia/mythtv
http://www.freshports.org/multimedia/mythtv

Looks like port in tree broken, but
there was discussion about port in the list recently
And some patches was suggested
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126343

P.S.: I do not even tried it.

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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru


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