Linux Media PC

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Linux Media PC information

Contents 1 Articles and Howto 2 Sites 3 Hardware 3.1 Cases 3.2 TV Tuner 4 Remote control 5 Software 5.1 Video / DVD / TV 5.2 Audio / Music 6 Installing Xine on FC6 7 MP3 support on FC6 8 Installing banshee on FC6

Articles and Howto

• http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1814896,00.asp
• http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc
• http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6365551074.html
• http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/27/linux_media_pc.html
• http://fredrik.hubbe.net/silence/how.html

Sites

• http://htpcnews.com
• http://www.silentpcreview.com
• http://www.endpcnoise.com
• http://www.buildsilentpc.com
• http://www.quietpcusa.com

• http://www.pcalchemy.com

Hardware

Cases

• http://www.silverstonetek.com/products-lc16m.htm
• http://www.hoojum.com
• http://www.nexustechnologyusa.com http://www.nexustek.nl

TV Tuner

• Hauppauge PVR-250 Supposedly has good Linux drivers.

Remote control

• http://www.lirc.org Linux Infrared Remote Control

Software

Video / DVD / TV

• http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php MythTV on Fedora Core
• http://www.geexbox.org - customized linux for media PCs
• http://www.fluendo.com/elisa/index.php
• Linux DVD Player Review
• http://www.xinehq.de
• http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd
• http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
• http://linuxtv.org
• http://www.kdetv.org TV viewer
• MythTv TV recorder

Audio / Music

• http://kradio.sourceforge.net - Radio software
• Banshee - Link iTunes, but for Linux. Reads (and syncs?) to iPod devices.
• gtkpod - GTK2 based GUI for iPods

Installing Xine on FC6

First you need to have access to the Livna repository. See UsingLivna for more info.

After you've registered the Livna repository with yum, xine should be available:

# yum install -y xine xine-lib-devel xine-lib-extras-nonfree

Then run xine-check from the local xterm, as a non-root user.

To install commercial (encrypted) DVD support:

# yum install libdvdcss

MP3 support on FC6

# yum install -y gstreamer-ffmpeg
# yum install -y gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-multiverse gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Installing banshee on FC6

First you need to have access to the Livna repository. See UsingLivna for more info.

# yum install -y banshee

• There are lots of dependencies because Banshee is writen in 'mono' (a Linux version of the .NET CLR), so be prepared to wait a while.
• The dependencies for ipod support will be automatically installed.