[olug] Off topic: Roku box users?

[Lee M. Meysenburg]

  On 10/11/2010 10:40 AM, Dan Linder wrote:
> Since the RoksBox.com "channel" for Roku appears to allow the Roku box to
> play streams from a NAS share, I'm thinking about resurrecting my MythTV box
> with a couple of inexpensive USB tuner cards to capture the few over-the-air
> shows we want that aren't easily available on Roku/NetFlix/Hulu.
>
> Anyone have any USB tuners they'd like to promote as being MythTV/Linux
> compatible and hopefully less than $50 each?  (NewEgg has one today for $30,
> but it doesn't look very Linux friendly...)
>
> I need USB because my MythTV back-end that I'll be setting up is a small
> form factor PC with only one PCI slot available...
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 18:52, Dan Linder<dan at linder.org>  wrote:
>
>> I think this allows the  Roku to read NAS shared files:
>>      http://roksbox.com/home/
>
I would recommend the HDHomeRun from SiliconDust. Have been running run 
with MythTV for 2 years with little problems.

http://www.silicondust.com/products/models/hdhr-us/

Lee