[mythtv-users] Urgent Questions

[Nick Breau]

I think what I'll do is use my Ahtlon 2600 as a single box MythTV setup (as
long as I will still be able to use tihs occasionally as a standard Linux
box for running other apps using the TV instead of monitor)

What will I need to add to the following, nothing except for a Tv capture
card ?  Have people been able to successfully implement wireless network or
a powerline network into RH9 ?


CPU                        AMD 2600+ Athlon

Motherboard        ASUS A7V8X-X K7 (Sound & Lan)

Memory                 512MB DDR400

Hard Drive             Western Digital 80GB 7200 (8mb cache)

CD-ROM               LG 16x DVD-ROM

CD-RW                  MSI 52x/24x/52x

LAN                       3COM (3CSM100B)

Video Card            Asus - V9180TD Graphics card - GeForce4 MX 440 - 64MB
DDR - AGP 8x - DVI - Dual VGA - TV-out



Will add PVR350 capture card



need anything else ?







----- Original Message -----
From: "Torsten Schenkel" <torsten.schenkel at web.de>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Urgent Questions


> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:12, Nick Breau wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone can provide me with some information about a
> > frontend backend architecture for implementing MythTV.  I have been
reading
> > up and looking into a MythTV solution and think I may finally take the
> > plunge since last night I installed an IE6 security patch on my dekstop
and
> > my PC is now non-functional - time to go back to redhat.
> >
> > My question is wether I can use the following two PC's for a
> > frontend-backend solution and what I may be missing in order to complete
the
> > setup.  I know I will need to add a tuner card (PVR250?) to the backend
box,
> > but will i need anything else ?
> >
> > Backend - RH9, Athlon 2600mhz, 512RAM, MSI video card
> > Frontend (good enough?) -  P2-400, 256RAM, 10gig hdd, old
ATI-All-in-wonder
> > video card
> > (If this frontend isn't powerfull enough, what would be minimum
requirements
> > ? Could I implement a solution without a harddrive for the frontend ?)
>
> The frontend will need more cpu than the backend, at least with a pvr250
as tuner card.
> So why don't you swap the two. The P2-400 should be enough for capturing
with a h/w
> encoder card. It would need a bigger hdd. The frontend needs more cpu
because it has to
> do all the decoding.
>
> Torsten
> --
> Config files for pvr350 tv-out and framebuffer:
> http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
>
>


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