HOWTO

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Links to various DIY PVR/HTPC HowTo articles

MythTV Ubuntu Installation Guide Part 1 (http://www.dvrplayground.com/article/13712/)

MythTV Ubuntu Installation Guide - Part 2 (http://www.dvrplayground.com/article/13714/)

Streaming MythTV Recordings Over the Internet (http://www.dvrplayground.com/article/13722/)

Hack Attack: Build your own DVR (http://www.dvrplayground.com/article/12576/)

Building Your Own PVR 101 Part 1 (http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-4.html)

Building Your Own PVR 101 Part 2 (http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-5.html)

Turn Your PVR into a Dancin' Machine: (DDR/StepMania) (http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-16-page-1.html)

HOWTO: BYOPVR with Dish Network 301, PVR-150, & GBPVR (http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-17-page-1.html)

HowTo: Build a PC DVR in 3 Easy Steps for under $200 (http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-10-page-1.html)

MAKE Magazine:Free TiVo: Build a Better DVR out of an Old PC (http://www.makezine.com/extras/4.html) BeyondTV setup

Excellent 2cpu.com HTPC guide (http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html) (excellent primer/info)

O'Reilly Building My MythTV box Part I (http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/22/myth_tv.html)

O'Reilly Building My MythTV box Part II (http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2005/08/17/myth_tv.html)

ScreenSavers Build a PC DVD Jukebox (http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/47947/Creating_a_PC_DVD_Jukebox.html)

Tom's Hardware Building The Ultimate Home Theater PC (http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20051003/index.html)

Make VGA runs over Cat5 cable (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/vga_over_cat5_c.html)

Video Howto: KnoppMyth install (http://revision3.com/systm/mythtv/)

Video Howto: Make your own AV cables (http://revision3.com/systm/avcabling/)

See MythTV and Linux pages for huge list of linux distribution specific howto guides!

Building a Windows based PVR (http://craigg.no-ip.org/pvr/pvr.htm)

TiVo Killers?—Windows PVRs @ ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1869563,00.asp)

Geeks.com Build an HTPC Pointers 101 (http://www.geeks.com/pix/techtips-OCT13-05.htm)

How to build a Digital Media Center (AU) (http://www.smarthouse.com.au/How_Stuff_Works/Home_Entertainment/?article=/How%20Stuff%20Works/Home%20Entertainment/Magazine%20Articles/L2V6F8T8) (same concepts will work in UK/Europe they use a DVB-T card) NOTE: this link is broken

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Project Examples

Zed's mini-itx DVD Player Case Mod DVR (http://www.byopvr.com/Sections+index-req-viewarticle-artid-11-page-1.html)

Uneed X11 HTPC build by Scott (http://funthings.dnsalias.com/~scott/toys_hobbies/building_htpc/)

Balford82's Building a PVR writeup (http://www.ralford.net/index.php?wiki_entry_id=1)

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