Clarification: This is not a guide. It is a success story about using guides.

Goal: To create a working MythTV system (without the TV option) in order to better organize and ease watching stored movies from computers around my network.

Resources: Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop with 1Ghz Pentium 3, 256MB Ram, 10GB Harddrive, nVidia Geforce 2 GO.