[mythtv-users] MythTV shopping list

Mike Miller miller44 at optonline.net
Sat Jul 19 19:55:29 EDT 2003


For about $100 shipped you can get an athlon xp2000+ w/a motherboard
from www.bzboyz.com  Then again you would still need to buy the tv tuner
card, but you would have better parts if you wanted to use it as
anything else.  Like everyone else said, your call.


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Scott Blomfield
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 5:19 PM
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythTV shopping list

I'll second that. Either buy a faster processor (could get expensive,
because you'd probably need a new motherboard as well) or get the
Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250. It's about $125 if you find a good deal. Maybe
you can get a CPU + board for cheaper that has the horse power to do
software encoding. Your call.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Z [mailto:mythtv at ricerage.org] 
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 1:38 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV shopping list

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 13:18, Rob Hudson wrote:
> 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

Thats rather on the slow side as CPUs go. More on that later...

*If* the TV card could do the encoding in hardware, your assumption
would be correct. In this case it isn't, because it doesn't. 

With a K62 500, I don't think you're going to be recording well. You're
better off going with a PVR-250 it seems.

Brian

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