<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've currently got everything running VERY nicely (except<br>transcoding) on my FC4 box with a PVR-350. I was thinking about<br>adding a PVR-500 into the same box. I would continue to use the 350<br>for watching Live TV and playing back recordings, but would use the
<br>500 for scheduled recordings and maybe a little picture-in-picture<br>action. Anyone have experience with this? Plug it in and set it up<br>like the 350? Will MythTV see that I have 3 encoders, 1 decoder and<br>accommodate properly? Should I keep it simple and get myself a 150
<br>instead?</blockquote><div><br>
I've got a 350 and 500 in one box and they work great together with
ivtv 0.4.0. Had some issues with earlier versions of the driver
0.2.7? and a via KT400 mobo, but switched to geforce2 mobo and had no
issues. Don't know if the new drivers would be good with the via
board or not, I'd be willing to bet they would,(I think my issues were
with an immature driver for these cards) but I haven't tried the cards
in the old box to find out... I don't think adding a 150 would be
any easier than a 500- as a 500 is essentially 2x150 on one card.
So, if you're going to go for it, you might as well do the 500... Once
every few weeks, it's nice to have the extra tuner to resolve a
recording conflict. Since you have the 350 working already,
adding the 500 should be pretty straightforward.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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