I see what you mean. How about this...<br><br><br><a href="http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/mdp130.asp">http://www.digitalconnection.com/Products/Video/mdp130.asp</a><br><br>(Dunno about Linux support though) (You might have guessed I'm keen on you not buying another PC for environmental reasons....
<br>None of my business of course ;-) )<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Steve<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Munson</b> <<a href="mailto:william_munson@bellsouth.net">william_munson@bellsouth.net
</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;">Steve Smith wrote:<br>> Bill,<br>><br>> Have you though about *downgrading* and going for a backend frontend
<br>> arrangement?<br>> E.g. Use a Pentium 3 class machine as the backend and your current AMD<br>> setup as your frontend. With the recording load etc taken off will it<br>> handle the HD?<br>> It'd be cheap! And much more environmentally friendly (you recycle
<br>> both the AMD and someone elses P3).<br>> You can also hide the backend which is likely to be more wife friendly...<br>><br>> Steve<br><br>A split system is not really an option at this time. Only one location
<br>with the cable connection, at the tv set and this is a rental property<br>so no chance to change things around. Plus the new mobo has already been<br>through the wife approval process. :)<br><br>The current setup will barely play a couple of the HD channels and does
<br>a fair job on the rest but there are stability issues in that the video<br>is jittery at times and nothing I have tried will improve it beyond its<br>current performance level. The system first thinks the video is too slow
<br>and drops frames then milliseconds later thinks the video is too fast<br>and doubles frames in a noticeable cycle.<br><br>Bill<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">
mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br></blockquote></div><br>