[mythtv-users] HDTV Hardware requirements

[Mark Johannessen]

How is your Roku HD1000 connected to your backend?

Mark

On 2/19/06, Daniel Walton <dwalton at cisco.com> wrote:
> I'm using MythRoku on a Roku HD1000.  It is a limited frontend but is cheap
> ($200 - $250), quiet, and has nice picture quality.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> > I'd like to take a poll and see what kind of hardware people are using
> > to view HDTV. I've been having some problems getting mine to function
> > properly but have been attributing it to some settings or tweaks since I
> > thought I had plenty of horsepower.
> >
> > Here's my stats:
> >
> > Athlon XP 2500+
> > 512MB PC3200 Ram
> > Nvidia MX4000 64MB
> > pcHDTV HD-3000
> > Segate 250MB ATA-100 hard drive
> > MythTV 0.19
> >
> > Here's my problem:
> > I had problems with the video slowing down (or pausing) every 1-2
> > second. I enabled xvmc and the other tweaks ont he xvmc wiki. This
> > seemed to improve things but I still get pauses when the OSD pops up.
> > Everything seems to work well when I try using azap and mplayer. Is this
> > just due to the overhead of mythtv and the ring buffer?
> >
> > Also, on that note, MythTV seemed to pick up many more channels than
> > atscscan, however, many of them do not work or seem to be transmitting
> > blank/black video. Is this normal? I also get up to three channels for a
> > single station, sometimes more than one having -DT. Along those lines,
> > I'm supposed to be able to import my channels.conf but I didn't see
> > anything in mythtvsetup to do this. Is it some sort of command line program?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
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