[mythtv-users] Hardware for MythTV

Diego Torres torres.diego at ttcpl.com.au
Mon Sep 6 21:12:35 UTC 2010


Multicore will rock if you ever decide to trancode or export to a  
mobile device.

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On 07/09/2010, at 4:06 AM, Charles Wright <cpwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 11:00 AM, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   After a couple of years with MythTV 0.20 I am about to embark in a
>> full upgrade - not only MythTV but also the Linux box running it.  
>> What
>> kind of specs should my new box aim to meet? My current box is built
>> around a Pentium 4 at 3 GHz, with 1 GB of memory, an Nvidia FX 5200
>> video card and a Hauppauge PVR 150 capture card. I would like to
>> capture HD video (which implies a new capture card - which one?) and
>> this platform does not play well (if at all) HD videos - at best they
>> are jerky.
> I have an HDHomeRun and HD-PVR.  I prefer the HDHomeRun because it has
> generally been rock-solid reliable, and can be located anywhere in
> relation to the machine; and gives you two tuners at an attractive
> price point.  Unfortunately, it only works for Clear QAM channels.  My
> HD-PVR crashes every few days (until the latest firmware the HD-PVR
> itself would lock up, now it is causing a kernel BUG on 9.10).  Both
> of them capture with excellent quality (the HDHomeRun captures the
> MPEG off-the-cable without any encoding, so its quality is as good as
> it gets).
>
>>   Will getting a multicore box help here?
> It will be useful if nothing else so that you have an additional CPU
> for commercial flagging.
>
> I currently have a separate FE from BE (I use an Aspire Revo for the
> FE); and am not sure what I think about the setup.  One of the
> disadvantages is that I'll need to upgrade both machines in unison.
>
> Charles
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