[mythtv-users] Building a system from scratch

[Sam Byrne]

I don't know too much about this stuff, but is it possible to use the
front-ends as you're suggesting?  I suppose it would work if the pvr 350
were doing decoding work, but I would think you'd need to have that
pvr350 in your front end system and not in your back end.

Am I making sense?
Sam
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:46, Jeff Clowser wrote:
> Harry Orenstein wrote:
> 
> > I have the ASUS A7V8X-X mobo and have never had any of the VIA
> > chipset problems that have been described on this list.  From what I
> > can tell, 512MB DDR is the best choice for memory.
> 
> I'm narrowing down my "ideal" mythtv system... 
> 
> I was looking around for reasonably priced boards, and was looking at 
> the ABIT KV7, with 1 PVR-350 and multiple PVR-250's.  This board has 
> onboard 10/100 lan, "6-channel AC 97" sound (not sure if this is 
> supported in Linux, but I have a couple sound blaster cards laying 
> around that I can use if this doesn't work), Ultra DMA 133 (to use for 
> an OS hard disk, and maybe a dvd burner), and SATA (for hard disks to 
> store video - figure this is the best thing to handle the I/O 
> requirements of writing multiple sources at a time with multiple PVR 
> inputs).  This board goes for about $80 on newegg.
> 
> This board has a Via chipset (VIA KT600 + VT8237).  I'm a bit new to 
> this list, so haven't seen the posts referred to above about Via Chipset 
> problems - Does anyone know if this board/chipset has any problems with 
> MythTV (or underlying dependencies?)
> 
> I have an extra 1.8 Ghz AMD proc to use for this - sounds like htis may 
> be overkill, but since I already have it...
> 
> My plan is to later get Via EPIA M motherboards, and build a couple 
> minimyth diskless front ends.  The above system would then be used on a 
> primary tv, plus for the tftp (and maybe dhcp) server for these remote 
> boxes - figure with all the hardware encoding/decoding, plus high speed 
> I/O on the SATA drives, the 1.8ghz proc should be enough.
> 
> Does this sound reasonable?
> 
> Next problem will be to find a quiet enough case/fans/etc to put the 
> main box in :)
> 
>  - Jeff
> 
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