<DIV>A PVR350 has video out with built-in harware decoder. A PVR250/150 does not have TV out. Most likely, you find your video card already has a TV out, whether it is an SVideo or DVI. All Hauppauge PVR150/250/350 cards use harware encoders and they don't tax your system CPU. Mine is a dual Pentium III 933MHz with 512 MB RAM, system monitor shows about 20-40% peak CPU utilization with about 120-350 MB peak RAM use.<BR><BR><B><I>Todd Houle <thoule@wesleyan.edu></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I'm looking to build the following MythTV setup - please let me know if I'm on the right track.
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<DIV>Computer: Dell GX 240 (1.7GHz) 512MB Ram 160GB HD OS: Fedora (just downloaded today)<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm looking to buy a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR350 to get the remote and receiver and a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150 MCE with 2 catv inputs. Will the CPU handle the encoding of 3 inputs considering that the 350 model is supposed to do brainwork on the card instead of the CPU? Can I use the 150 to get the remote (or that doesn't include a receiver i guess) and don't need the 350? I need to keep costs down as low as possible or my wife won't let me do this ;) I see newegg.com has decent prices. </DIV>
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<DIV>What do I need to connect to the TV? I think the PVR 350 or even the 150 have TV out on them? Or do I need to buy a video card with TV out? </DIV>
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<DIV>I'd like to build a basic box and then eventually build separate client and server systems. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks!</DIV>
<DIV> Todd</DIV><BR><BR>
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