Hauppauge MediaMVP as MythTV Frontend
I was reading up on mythtv the last few days and realized that even though I have been running it for the last year and half or so and keeping up-to-date on it that I was missing a lot of great things that have come about. One very cool thing I came across was using the MediaMVP from Hauppauge as a frontend. It only $90 from newegg and comes with a remote. The only downside is it may not play divx encoded video that well and also only supports s-video out as the best quality so no HD stuff with this thing. It also requires a little work to get it working with your mythtv setup. See this article from mythtv.org about it with the pros and cons. Now you might ask well what do you have to do to make it work as your frontend. Well, the people who work on the MediaMVP Media Center project at sourceforge have made life a lot easier. Just tftp the new firmware to the device and its hooked up and ready to go. I’m looking forward to possibly trying it out sometime.