<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Also, the video quality seems to be a fair bit worse then the tivo.<br>Right now I'm not doing an apples to apples comparison (since the Tivo
<br>source is a satellite box and the myth input is the pc3000). But is<br>that expected? What kind of video quality should I expect with a mac<br>mini doing output via s-video? Will output via DVI be much better<br>(for NTSC video)?
</blockquote><div><br>How are you capturing? I pull in S-Video from my DSTB into a PVR-150, capturing at 720x480 with an average bitrage of 4500 and a peak of 6000, and it loooks as good as going straight into the TV (IMHO).
<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">When I start to watch a show (ie select it from the recorded shows) I<br>get about 10-15 sec of a black screen before the playback starts. Is
<br>that normal?</blockquote><div><br></div>On pre-recorded?? Wow, that seems very slow. I see *maybe* 3-5 seconds. I'd bet there's something wrong with your setup... maybe there's something telling in the frontend or backend logs?
<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In general, does my plan (big server w/ 3 tuners, mac minis as FE<br>machines, etc) seem like a realistic plan to get a nice easy to use
<br>home AV system?<br></blockquote></div><br>Seems perfectly reasonable to me. As you note, if you want HD, you'll likely need more horsepower on the frontend, but since I'm only running SD, I can't really help you there. :)
<br><br>Brett.<br>