[mythtv-users] Starting Up

Jens Baumeister jens.baumeister at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 13:52:21 UTC 2006


Hi!

I can't help you on the xbmc part, nor do I know how many GB of
diskspace your motherboard can handle, but I do have some experience
running myth with DVB-T tuners on a 600 MHz PIII.

On 1/13/06, MR M T Golledge <markgolledge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Since I'm living in the UK, I'd also like to connect to Freeview and
> wondered what the best capture card would be (I presume WinTV Nova-T)?

I have 2 Nova-T in my system. They work great - it was just a bit
confusing to figure out which drivers to use since different revisions
of the Nova-T have different chipsets. (You can tell them apart,
however.)

> I don't really want to start if 600Mhz isn't going to be enough. Is there
> any way around this and will I be able to watch live tv as well as
> pre-recorded tv?

I have a 600 MHz machine, too, and I can record 2 programs and watch a
third one without any problems. (Recording DVB doesn't really tax the
processor since it's basically just writing the data stream to disk.)
I do, however, have a GeForce 5200-based gfx card, which, from my
understanding, handles much of the MPEG-decoding during playback.
Without that (or another similar card), 600 MHz might not be
sufficient for playback on that machine. (The 5200 is nice because it
has a TV-out and no cooling fan, which cuts down on the noise.)

Oh, and forget about PiP - 600 MHz aren't enough for that.

Jens


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