[Pete_London]

I, on the other hand, would not recommend XBMC Live for the Revo as I feel I have wasted the last 4 weeks doing just that. For one thing, XBMC Lite won't install onto your internal hard drive on the Revo. (I tried on both my units, ended up installing it to an external hard drive in portable mode then putting that drive in the Revo)

I now have the 'minimal' XBMCbuntu as described here. Make sure you turn off RevoBoot in the BIOS before you start.

It took less than 30 minues to get the whole thing working.

I bought a Cyberlink MCE IR Remote on ebay for £10 delivered and the remote worked out of the box, no need to even install LIRC or configure a thing.

Use the following audio settings if just connecting it to a TV:

Digital
Off
Off
plughw:0,3
hdmi
On

(thanks to topfs2 and noikz for the plughw bit - it will play your MP3s at normal speed and play mono audio from movie trailers too)

Then throw on the Aeon Lite mod by Paul (see the Aeon forum) that has been designed for the xbox to keep your CPU load down and you have a spectacular HTPC for very little money. I'm 100% positive I could be running mine with the standard 1GB RAM, but will stick with the extra gig I stuck in to be sure.

Have fun..

Pete