<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Welch</b> <<a href="mailto:jrw3319@gmail.com">jrw3319@gmail.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 currently have a MythTV FE/BE system setup with a PVR-150 card and<br>an HD3000 card. This is a fairly new installation, and my first<br>experience with MythTV, so I think I still have some work to optimize<br>things, but overall I have things working the way I want. Before I
<br>started working on this MythTV setup I had a WinFast TV2000 XP Expert<br>tv-tuner card working in another Linux box. I'm now considering<br>adding the card to my Myth box. I know it doesn't do hardware<br>encoding but thought I might get some use out of it for watching
<br>LiveTV and using it as a lower priority card for recording in the<br>event of conflicts. Another side benefit is that I don't currently<br>have a remote control on this system and this card comes with one.<br>Not really a big deal because I have another frontend system that I do
<br>most of my viewing from another system where I do have a remote.</blockquote><div><br>I still use this card but its not in a myth box (used at work in my windows machine for the cable FM). I switched to a 250 and a 150mce a long time ago. I found that with my older amd 2500 processor that the cpu usage was just to high even for a backup in case of conflicts. The only thing I would suggest doing is putting it in a stand alone front end. In the end i would suggest just getting a cheap Hauppauge card like the 150. Its just not worth that cpu overhead to use a non mpeg card if possible.
<br><br>Stephen<br></div></div><br>