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<br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2008, at 2:31 AM, pibi wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">hi !</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I am from Slovenia and this is </font><font face="Arial" size="2">my box</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">ANTEC Fusion BLACK VERIS V2 case (includes 430w silent PS) - yes it is SILENT - even 2x 12cm fans are OK</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">MB ASUS M2A-VM-HDMI (bluray+ hddvd ready MB with onboard X1250 ATI HDMI video)</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">AMD X2 3250 EE proc (45 W power)</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">2x 1 GB GAIL PC2-6400 800 Mhz DDR2 RAM</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">500 GB Seagate SATAII 16 Mb cache</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">DVD RW 18x on SATA</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Microsoft X110 IR kbd+mouse</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">all together all new HW about 450 EU</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">+</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Leadtek XP2000 Expert analog TV card - PAL color system</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Technotrend TT USB CI-3650 S2 (mpeg4 HD) SAT receiver (with DBA drivers for Vista and XP) for PAL color</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">HW setup was fast, in 30 minutes everything started to work, ANTEC manual is perfect</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Output to Panasonic Viera Plazma TV (43" i think) over HDMI and digital audio to Marantz 5.1 system</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I started with Vista home ultimate - problems with Leadtek and TT card - no way to go in MCE TV but basicaly works with own players</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">next i switched to Mythbuntu which was not so easy. Most problems - big update (over 100 packages) yet no suport yet for TT card.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I set up 80GB for system, rest will be for data, I need just frontend+recording no backend server</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Net is OK, 10Mb/1Mb VDSL flat rate</font></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>As I understand it, you don't intend to run a backend. You cannot record without a backend. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">My question:</span></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <div>Best config of system ( I can add another Hard drive if works better)</div> <div>Anybody have experience seting up similar system</div> <div>What to reconsider (change of components)</div> <div>Any idea how to setup DBA (not a database!) drivers for TT Sat card - on Vista with TT-Center (proprietary SW from Technotrend)</div> <div>How to decrypt SAT channels which are protected - My box has a CI for CAMs or over SW decryption (I also have HUMAX SD box IRCI5400 with TOH SW)</div> <div>To get remote + new TV card - I search for Haupeage 500 with 2 MPEG2 encoders on board</div> <div> </div> <div>Any suggestion or warning about configuration (forget the price, I am looking for quality)</div> <div> </div></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Get a second hard drive. look for something small, in the 80-100gig range... split it into a couple partitions. Make one of them just for the database. Put your OS and database on that drive. Use the other solely for storage. It'll speed everything up. </div><div><br></div></body></html>