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How We Built An Internet TV Box for $30

I found this artical 'How We Built An Internet TV Box for $30' at http://www.2millionblog.com/2009/07/...ox_for_30.html. The only problem is that it is based on Winders XP.

Does anyone know how to do the same thing using Linux??

All I what to do is view TV over the internet. Digital TV signals sucks in my area.

Yes, the article is about Hulu which a quick google suggest it supports Fedora and Ubuntu but it should be possible to get it to work with other distributions.

http://www.hulu.com/support/article/197541

Code:

2) An old PC running Windows XP Pro (Free or ~$250 used)

Love articles like that, not quite $30 if you don't have a spare computer good enough.

I have Hulu Desktop running on AntiX 11 Base install on a Emachine Desktop Computer, Pentium 4, 1 gig ram, inbuilt graphics chip Card ATI RC410 . Got it out of a dumpster though.

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Originally Posted by rokytnji (Post 4729072)

I have Hulu Desktop running on AntiX 11 Base install on a Emachine Desktop Computer, Pentium 4, 1 gig ram, inbuilt graphics chip Card ATI RC410 . Got it out of a dumpster though.

Gotta love those finds eh :)

Here are the specs

Code:

$ inxi -Fxz

System:    Host: biker Kernel: 2.6.38-7.dmz.2-liquorix-686 i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.5.3) 

          Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.2 Distro: antiX-M11-base-686 Jayaben Desai 25 April 2011

Machine:  System: GATEWAY product: W3507 version: 500

          Mobo: Intel model: D102GGC2 version: AAD70214-201

          Bios: Intel version: GC11020M.15A.2010.2006.0817.0956 date: 08/17/2006

CPU:      Single core Intel Celeron D CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 6398.92 clocked at 3199.463 MHz 

Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200] bus-ID: 01:05.0 

          X.Org: 1.12.1.902 driver: radeon Resolution: 1024x768@85.0hz 

          GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RC410 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3 Direct Rendering: Yes

Audio:    Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel bus-ID: 00:14.2

          Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.23

Network:  Card-1: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver: 8139too ver: 0.9.28 port: 1000 bus-ID: 02:02.0

          IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>

          Card-2: Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter driver: rtl8187 usb-ID: 0bda:8189

          IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>

Drives:    HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (-) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST3120213A size: 120.0GB 

Partition: ID: / size: 109G used: 20G (19%) fs: ext3 ID: swap-1 size: 2.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 

Sensors:  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.2C mobo: 47.8C 

          Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 2277 fan-2: 1109 fan-4: 0 

Info:      Processes: 82 Uptime: 16 min Memory: 198.5/880.0MB Runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.7.0 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.13

My thread

http://antix.freeforums.org/hulu-tv-...box-t3475.html

Edit: by the way. Miro runs good on this also.

See antennaweb.org for your address. I suspect that you should receive a number of OTA channels.

Be warned that OTA in old analog over VHF was way better than the new generally UHF digital. You may need to use a good receiver like silicondust or other and get a good 8 bay uhf antenna.

You might be able to find a place like this in your area. http://www.discountelectronics.com/i..._detail&p=5939 A cheap computer with some sort of warranty would be my suggestion. I'd buy a new one before I spent too much on a used one with no warranty.

The cheapest system new should run linux enough to view some hulu. Pay movies like netflix use microsoft's silverlight and it can't be replaced by linux.