[mythtv-users] Re:Newbie Hardware Questions

Brian Blalock bblalock at mtco.com
Sun Jun 29 19:27:52 EDT 2003


The WinTV PVR datasheet says that it requires a PII-600mhz.  

Hrm.  I was going to guess that you were going to need a faster CPU for a 
useful system, even with the hardware encoder, but there's one system in the 
PVR database running on a PII-266.



mbmonk wrote:
>I have a Pentium 2 - 333MHZ (I think). Thinking about picking up a Hauppauge
>WinTV PVR 350 or picking up the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 with an Nvidia
>GeForce Card to do the TV Out.
>
>The 350 has tv-out ( I live in the United States so I need NTSC output ) and
>does the 350 have any problems with MythTV? Would it be better/easier to go
>with the 250 version and the Nvidia GeForce card combo to do the same thing?
>
>How is the Hauppauge remote support? Can I have full functionality of MythTV
>with the remote or should I buy another remote to get full functionality.
>
>Thanks for any replies,
>Mike 


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