[mythtv-users] please sanity check my new hardware
Jo Shields
directhex at apebox.org
Thu Apr 6 14:38:08 UTC 2006
Disconnect wrote:
>So my old hardware (which is really over capacity as it is) can't record or
>play back hidef. Which means its time for new hardware, yay!
>
>I'm looking at a combined fe/be on dedicated hardware, aimed at OTA hidef,
>deinterlacing of svideo (eg tvtime, for watching from the directivo) and
>general HTPC tasks (weather, videos, music, photos..). Can someone give a
>quick glance at this and let me know what they think? (Its somewhat
>overkill, but I'm not sure where - or if - it makes sense to cut back the
>most.)
>
>- Shuttle ST20G5
> (http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/ST20G5.asp)
> I was originally looking at some of their newer boxes, but they either had
>no pci slot (for the capture card), no ghz ht bus, or some other serious
>issue. The main concern I have with this one is the lack of gig-e, which may
>become an issue down the road when I move the backend (or at least the
>datastore) elsewhere.
> If the 800mhz HT bus and agp 8x is sufficient, the SN95G5 looks like the
>better option. So feedback here would be appreciated. (It does look like
>nvidia is the way to go for myth these days, and the ST20G5 is all ATI.)
>And the SN95G5 has no built-in video, so suggestions on a passable AGP card
>to stuff in it would also be welcome.
>
>
Wise man say "don't buy a sodding radeon express board, they're
fundementally broken under Linux". Or windows either, if one believes
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=Nzgx
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