[mythtv-users] Getting ready to setup a new system

[Dave Anderson]

Thanks for the input. I was planning on using the RH9 package I saw on the 
MythTV site.

I'll post my progress for everyone to see.


At 08:23 PM 11/5/2003, you wrote:
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>On Wednesday 05 November 2003 16:03, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > I'm getting ready to setup a new MythTV system for the first time and
> > wanted opinions on my hardware.
> >
> > I have an old Dell XPS PIII/650 MHz with 128 Meg Ram. I will up the ram to
> > 265 Meg
> > I'll be using the original 20 Gig HDD and an additional 180 Gig HDD.
>
>Make sure your BIOS on that system will accomodate a HD that big.
>
> > I have a Hauppauge PVR-350 coming.
> > I have a PNY nVidia GeForce4 5600 Ultra coming.
> > Sound card is Yamaha based.
> > I also have a Pinnacle PCTV Pro I was thinking of adding in as a second
> > tuner.
> >
> > I'm hoping the high end tuner and video will compensate for the lack of
> > CPU. What do you all think? Will it work? I don't really care if I can't
> > pause live tv, but it would be nice if I can. Maybe down the road I can get
> > a faster cpu and use it as a backend for a few frontends located in the
> > family room and bedrooms.
>
>Pausing won't be a problem, it doesn't take CPU to _not_ play video. ;) I
>suspect the hardware encoding/decoding of the PVR-350 is the only reason you
>might get away not having more CPU. I'm curious to hear the results. :)
> >
> > Oh yeah, I plan to use RedHat 9.
>
>I recommend not using the default window manager options (metacity.) Use 
>fvwm,
>blackbox, or something similarly lightweight. I use blackbox on RH9. (So to
>speak... since I don't use a RH kernel or metacity/bluecurve, and most of my
>packages are installed with apt from fedora and freshrpms, am I really using
>RH9? It's more fair to say I used the RH9 installer. ;)
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