mediacenter with linux

i want create my mediacenter (HTPC) with linux, but i have same
questions....
1) intel 8200 with MB Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (rev. 2.1) and gigabyte
geforce 8500 GT... support linux os?
2) what "version" of linux i must use for the mediacenter?

tx

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:38:07 -0800, Lor wrote:

> i want create my mediacenter (HTPC) with linux, but i have same
> questions....
> 1) intel 8200 with MB Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3P (rev. 2.1) and gigabyte
> geforce 8500 GT... support linux os?
> 2) what "version" of linux i must use for the mediacenter?
>
> tx

Look at mythtv, it's a Linux DVR

http://www.mythtv.org/

You can also install VLC on Fedora.

General Schvantzkopf <schvantzkopf@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> You can also install VLC on Fedora.
Can anyone point me at some sort of step by step guide to getting VLC to work
in Fedora?

I have a DVB-T card, which works with kaffeine, xine and mplayer. But what I
really want is linux based slingbox. Hotels seem to have the idea that everyone
wants business news 24/7.

I would like some means to stream live TV from my home fedora desktop, through
a SSH tunnel, to my fedora laptop.

I installed vlc and started the associated services. Finding out how to run
it was not easy, eventually I found that I need to connect to localhost port
8001, but got an error about not connecting to port 2001.

A google search on the error message came up with no english sites.

Help!!!
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