[mythtv-users] newbie uk mythtv question

[Stephen Tait]

I have a Hauppauge Nova-T which I've never actually plugged in due to lack 
of PCI slots - d'oh! - but is reported to work well.

Though I hear the best budget card is the Avermedia something-or-other. 
IIRC, they both work with the standard (budget?) DVB-T driver from 
linuxtv.org (or included in 2.6).

As far as other HW goes, you'll want a mobo without a problematic chipset 
(and a fairly beefy CPU if this is a standalone box) - personally I use a 
gigabyte KM400 based mATX board with an Athlon 2400 (overkill - a 1700 will 
do you proud, but a powerful CPU on this machine is useful for reasons 
other than myth) in it. I use a budget GerForceFX (which helps with the 
MPEG2 decoding) for output to monitor and maybe a TV at some point. Boxed 
up in a nice black coolermaster case. You're either going to need a big and 
quiet HD (at least 60GB) for recordings, else a big-assed server to hold 
them on over the network - personally I use 80GB and 120GB seagates in an 
LVM. Chuck in as much RAM and HD as you think you'll need, they're cheap.

I have a server with about 500GB of RAID1 which holds all the music and 
movies and, as of about 45 minutes ago, also holds the mythtv database.

Hope this helps. Once my myth-on-gentoo howto is complete, I'm might do 
some hardware-stuff for the mythtv wiki.

At 23:55 10/06/2004 +0100, you wrote:
>i've searched the archive but can't seem to find the answer so forgive the 
>lame question but:
>
>i am in the uk and would LOVE some advice on the best hardware for 
>building my first mythtv box - i am particularly interested in the best tv 
>card to get freeview (the uk digital over the air transmissions)
>
>any thoughts/help gratefully received.
>
>thanks guys
>
>ben
>
>
>
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