[mythtv-users] Crystal HD

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Justin Garrison
<justinleegarrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Scott D. Davilla <davilla at 4pi.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >> So If i order from Logic Supply I should be in good shape?
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > If you order a bcm70015 from Logic Supply, you will get a bcm70015,
>> > there's
>> > > a discount code for $10 off (XBMC15) that might still work.
>> >
>> > Now does anyone know the answer to the original question - what is the
>> > state of support in mythtv?
>> >
>> >
>> None.  That said, the correct person/people now have hardware in-hand (as
>> of
>> a few days ago) and the hope is that there will be support in .24, though
>> that's not me making promises for anyone else (and precisely why I avoid
>> saying specifically who I'm talking about ;)  ).
>>
>> Robert
>
> I am looking to get one of these for my AOpen MP945-DR, do these boards need
> special video cards/hardware to work?

No.

> The computer has Intel video with 2
> free mPCIe slots and the intel video just isn't handling HD video anymore.
> Is there a list of computers/boards these work with so I can know before I
> buy?

Any computer with a free mini pcie slot (that doesn't have a cracked
out bios). My thinkpad, for example, has both an unused full-sized
mini pice slot and an unused half-height mini pcie slot, but I had to
throw a bcm970015 crystalhd card in the full-sized slot sans-screws to
hold it in place (its held in place by the keyboard right now), as the
thinkpad bios is, well, kinda crap. I think the mini pcie slot may be
reserved for "blessed" communications modules, like a wwan card or
bluetooth or something. Oh. Hrm. That actually reminds me. The ASRock
ION330 HT-BD box I've got wouldn't boot w/a crystalhd card in it, but
I think that may have been due to the bios' setting for "enable
onboard wifi", which was actually a mini pcie card. I've yet to first
try disabling that in the bios, *then* installing a crystalhd card...
Scared ya off yet? ;) Actually, I think Logic Supply does have a list
of systems/boards they've verified the card to work in though.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com