MythTV: Turning Linux Into a Digital Video Recorder: The Server

“In this two-part series, we’ll take a look at setting up MythTV
on two Fedora 11 machines. I say two machines because MythTV allows
you to split tasks into a video server machine that does all the
capturing and video storage and one or more client machines that
control the server, telling it what to do and also grab video
content from the server to decode and display on the client
machine. The server machine in this example will be an old AMD X2
running at 2.2Ghz and an ancient graphics card that allows only a
text console to be presented. The client will be an Intel Q6600
with an NVidia GTS 250 graphics card. MythTV can take advantage of
Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU), which, as the
name implies, lets you use the GPU for video decoding and
presentation.”

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