I would think it to be fine for SD<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">mythtvster</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtvster@gmail.com">mythtvster@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 think I am not going to rely on this box for HD. Do you think it will suffice for SD?<div><span class="q" id="q_110bcc094d263b0f_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Adeff
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adeffs.mythtv@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;">On 2/12/07, mythtvster <<a href="mailto:mythtvster@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mythtvster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I am looking for advice on a system I have laying around that I would like<br>> to use as a PVR. I have an old Dell Dimension Pentium III collecting dust<br>> that I would like to upgrade to use solely as a PVR. It only has an onboard
<br>> video card and 128MB RAM so this would have to be upgraded correct?<br>><br>> Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I need<br>> a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I would like to
<br>> hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if at all possible - do<br>> they even make a vanilla PCI card (with Linux drivers available) that will<br>> handle this?<br>><br>> I plan on bulking the memory up to 512 (it's max), will this be sufficient?
<br>><br>> Would this system be OK for a backend? I do not not want to dump a whole<br>> lot into it (including time) if the core system is not good enough.<br>><br>> Thanks in advance.<br><br>If you plan on recording HD you will need to use XvMC for playback as
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