CoffMan Blog Victor Fariña Infante , info about my own projects and thoughts.

Small Linux box to view DivX,MP3,TV,News,Inet and more on TV ... aka TopBox

Goal : The goal is to build a system (hardware and software) on which i can view all my collection of DivXs,MP3 and DVDs remotely, because i have all films on a big Hard Drive on another Linux System (Debian 3.0).

The hardware i am looking for is : VIA EPIA-M 9000 Mini-ITX Mainboard or VIA EPIA M10000 Nehemiah (137 eur.aprox ) the case (look one) 512 MB RAM wireless card D-Link 512+

the only PROBLEM i have is to boot up from a wireless network card ... http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=281

links : [http://linuxathome.net/reviews/via\_epia\_m\_900001.php](http://linuxathome.net/reviews/via_epia_m_900001.php) [http://linitx.com](http://linitx.com) [http://linpvr.org/](http://linpvr.org/) [http://www.mythtv.org/](http://www.mythtv.org/) [http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=58](http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=58)

Changes 02-jan-04 :

I finally decided tu reuse an "old" computer with the following configuration :

• Athlon XP 2000 Mhz (64 € ) (the old one fire up ;) )
• GeForce 4 MX440 with TV-OUT of course (50 € )
• A borrowed Avermedia TV TUNER (69 € when i buy it)
• Probably D-link DWL-520+ for Wireless connection to network