I would recommend Mythbuntu. I've had pretty good luck with that, or better yet Ubuntu and install XBMC. <br><br>Ray<br><br clear="all">"The truth is out there. The lies are in your head."<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Steve Macdonald <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dakmani1@yahoo.co.nz">dakmani1@yahoo.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">I have a PC that I want to turn into a media center box<div>3.2Ghz CPU (single Core)</div><div>4Gigs Ram</div><div>ATI HD 5670 512Mb GPU HDMI DVI and VGA</div>
<div>500W Power Supply.</div><div>Asus P5LD2 Delux Motherboard with built in 5.1 Audio with COAX and Optical Audio out.</div><div>1TB Sata drive</div><div><br></div><div>I am wanting have some sort of Linux Distro installed with a similar sort of Media Center App to XBMC which I have on my Macbook.</div>
<div>I will need this to be able to play HD .mkv files</div><div><br></div><div>Does anyone know of which would be the best distro to install for this, and any company or individual that can do the install and roughly what kind of costs I would be looking at?</div>
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