This guide is how I manage to install and afterwards having a running MythTV Mediecenter on a Arch Linux. This is a really great tool to have in the house, allthough its a hugher cost i power, if you don't think about the poweruse in your system. That's allso somthing to do with the choices I have with the different hardware.
Later on I have an idea of making some of my SunRay1 clients boot on a tftp-boot image and put the big machine(server) away from the livingroom. Anyways - here´s how I did the job:

First of all - I bought a machine big enough to handle what I dreamed of, and after playing around with this for several years I'm ending up with this system and still playing and exploring the MythTV System:

SateliteDish Swedish MicroWave 0160: 2xQuadLNB connected to Titanium MS 9/8 ES Quad-LNB switch. 4xDualLNB connected using 2XDISEqC GB-LAN: DLINK DS1024 24Ports GB-switch MythTV Master Backend: Dell Pressision Intel QuadCore 4TB Harddisc = 2TB i RAID1 - 8GB RAM TVtuner - 3xHauppauge HVR-4000 DVB-S/S2 + 2xTevii S470 DVB-S/S2 ReadyNAS Duo: 2x1TB Seagate harddisk in RAID1. Frontends: (X 1) Asrock ION330 2GB RAM 160GB Harddisc Nvidia ION Graphiccard for Full HD Frontends: (X 3) only running SD. Asus EEE B202 1GB RAM 80GB Harddisc

I'd start thinking about how to build my system - so I got the best of the situation and options. So here's what my setup are looking like:

So that'll run as a seperate network (carse of my setup in my Soekris) and will not have anything else to do with my other networks.

My Satelite Dish is a , as shown on this picture. Have 2xQuad-HD LNB's connected to the LNB-switch which set each output from the Quadheads to at static setting, which make its possible to put ??numbers of recievers on the other end.

My Litlle LNB-Switch: To make it possible to get more the 4outputs for recievers, I've discovered this kind of switches which can be bought with 2-4-8 X4 inputs from LNB's! The meaning is to have a static tuner on each band - so they're tuned static on either Low/High + Vertical/horizontal transponders. Model: Titanium MS9/8 ES QuadLNB Switch My MBE-server:

I had downloadet the latest ArchLinuxs CD (Base) and using this CD for installing the machines. I have made a seperate site - describing how to install the different machines - and at the same time made a full guide - for download.

Download the latest ArchLinux Image:here
Getting the different Tunercards up and running is pretty difficult and you can run into compiling problems with running with latest Kernel.

Later on I will keep making guides in howto make the same different things as I done through my experiences with MythTV. Those guide will be in the left side of the menu on the page considering MythTV!

But to describe my setup shortly:
MBE:
The MBE has all the DVB-S Inputsources and are using this as primary TV in my house exploding it using LAN.
It exporting using NFS the dirs inside /storage to the subnet (All Clients).
All my primary Video's and Concerts are stored on my NAS in RAID1 - And music are stored locally on the Raided drive.

Frontends:
They are talking with the MBE using LAN, and showing LIVE-TV streamed from the MBE. No Frontends has a input-source and could allso be thinclients - which could use PXE-boot.