[mythtv-users] ouple of question relating to setting up a MythTV box

[Bill Chmura]

On Sunday 30 May 2004 02:07 pm, Lucas Meijer wrote:
> Hey,
>
> > Hi,  I'm considering setting up a MythTV box on my lan to act as a
> > PVR. It will be required to record shows, (as a PVR does!), which can
> > then either be watched on the machines monitor or transferred to
> > VCD/DVD for watching on my telly, (i.e. TV out from the machine is
> > NOT a requirement).
> >
> > The machine I'm thinking of using is a Athlon XP2000+ with 512mb
> > memory, a GF4 MX4?? and a Hauppauge PVR350.
>
> Make sure you got plenty of HD space.
>
> > Couple of questions though:
> > 1).  Whats the best distrbution to use with MythTV.  I currently run
> > SuSE on my machines but I'm not rabid about using that in particular,
> > (although if it works that would be nice).  I am aware that with
> > Fedora I ould need to build a generic kernel to allow the Nvidia
> > drivers to work.
>
> I guess there's no real good answer to this one. Altough it seems SuSE's
> gcc is broken, at least when it comes to myth. I know very little of
> linux, and decided to go for gentoo. It went pretty smooth. I think
> there are no distro's reported as not working, except for SuSE's problem
> with its compiler.
>
> > 2).  Are theer any other "pitfalls" which I am likely to come across?
>
> tons :-)..
>
> However you don't need an hauppage pvr350. The 350 is a 250 + tv out.
> You don't need tv out, so might as well get the cheaper pvr250.
> Otherwise the machine seems to be good enough, I also run an XP2000+
> with 512mb with an hauppage pvr350, and so far everything is going ok.

Sorry to interject, but I was wondering about this... If you lose the tv out 
with the 250 do you still lose hardware decoding?  Just wondering...


> Haven't started getting my tvout to work though.
>
> Bye, Lucas

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