[mythtv-users] Ausu Pundit / Hauppauge Freestyle and some more questions ...

[John Morris]

On 2 Aug 2003, Saravanan Subbiah wrote:

> 2) How is the audio quality from the Pundit ? I know that the SPDIF is
> still not supported in linux, so if I have to connect the 5.1 audio out
> to my speakers, are there any other way of doing it ? Coz the rear panel
> seems to carry only line-in, line-out and stereo out. Do they also
> double as Front Speakers, Back Speakers and Central speakers like in the
> Shuttle SK45G ? If so then I can directly connect them to my speaker ?
> What will be the performance ?

Why would it matter?  The PVR-250 only captures stereo, so unless you also
plan to use it as a DVD player it won't make much difference.  Send the
two channel sound down to your stereo and if the program had Dolby
Surround Sound encoded in it your amp should be able to dematrix it.  
Besides, the optical jack on the Pundit is up front so you probably
wouldn't want a cable sticking out all of the time anyway.  (And btw, I
wanna know what mullethead decided to put the optical jacks on the front,
behind the flip down panel?)

> 4) Today is the last day for the circuit city PVR 250 deal and I am
> thinking if I should go for it. I already have 2 tunner cards (WinTV go
> and Aver Studio). They system I  am think of building is Pundit + 2.4
> GHz HT P4 + 133 ATA 80GB HD + DDR 333 512MB RAM. Do I still need a 250
> to store high quality video ?

Probably not, but it does take almost all of the load off of the CPU.  So
that means it will run cooler/quieter or leave those cycles free for other
jobs like commercial skiplist generation, DIVX transcoding, MAME/MESS,
etc.

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