[mythtv-users] MythTV shopping list
Rob Hudson
rob at euglug.net
Sat Jul 19 11:18:10 EDT 2003
Hello,
I'm planning on taking a fairly old box and making a MythTV server out
of it. I'm in the process of making a shopping list, trying to find the
right pieces that work with Linux.
Here's my planned system so far:
AMD-K62 500 MHz CPU
256 MB RAM
40 GB HD
Need to buy:
TV Tuner card: LeadTek TV2000 XP Deluxe
PCI Wireless card: Netgear MA311 PCI
Video card with TV out: Suggestions?
Can anyone comment on the choice of cards and how well they are
supported? If not well, maybe suggestions for others? I was looking
for fairly inexpensive cards and linux support. I like the fact that
the TV2000 has IR built-in, but haven't found too much online on the
support of it.
It's a slow processor by today's standards. My hope was that if the TV
card can do the encoding in hardware, that'll free up some processing
for the other tasks. I hope this isn't a bad assumption.
I plan to use Debian since that it was I'm most familiar with.
Thanks for any help,
Rob
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