[mythtv-users] New motherboard, no PCI

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 13:53:40 UTC 2006


On 4/18/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 6:21 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 April 2006 8:13 am, Warren wrote:
> >> I am getting a prototype of a new motherboard, which, if it makes it
> >> into mass production could be an amazing FE board.  I would
> >> however like
> >> to see if it can make a good backend as well.  The problem is that it
> >> has no PCI slots.  Only 2 miniPCI (actually 3 but 1 is used) and 2
> >> PCMCIA.
> >>
> >> What are my choices for SDTV and HDTV capture given this
> >> configuration?
> >
> > If it has USB, then you could go with a plextor convertx. I'm not
> > aware
> > of any minipci capture boards.
>
> I agree USB is probably your best bet, there are PCMCIA capture
> devices, but I don't know how good they might be or if Myth supports
> them.
>
> Firewire is another possibility if you have the right hardware from
> your cable co., and you could use a PCMCIA F/W interface if the board
> doesn't have it built-in.

and if it doesn't, request them to put at least one if not two (hell,
get rid of two of the USB headers and put two firewire headers, that
could net you, oh, 16 devices? I forget how many firewire cableboxes
could be safely chained together on one firewire port).

As well, Dvico makes the Fusion HDTV5 USB "Gold".
http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/eng/Products/HDTV5usb.aspx
don't know if its supported by linux/mythtv though.

--
Steve


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