[mythtv] Couple Newbie Questions

Matt Zimmerman mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:01:53 -0500


On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:03:44PM -0800, Jeremy Oddo wrote:

> > Since you're using onboard audio, your time would be better spent
> > getting a real sound card.  They are quite inexpensive now, and the
> > quality is far superior to onboard sound in my experience.
> >
> Sure.  I agree with you 100%...BUT...this is a TEST machine.  I need to
> see how everything is going to work in order to determine if I want to
> build a nice TV-component-style MythTV box (ie: how it's going to work
> with my digital cable, and how I'm going to handle the IR stuff).

It comes down to whether you want to spend hours, days or weeks on testing
(and sending a lot of urgent pleas to a mailing list), or spend USD$10 on a
sound card which just works.

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 - mdz