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Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Emery
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Emery
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everyone,<br>
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My problem:<br>
I've read through a lot of the emails in this mailing list that<br>
discusses HD and mythtv. But I'm still unsure how to migrate my current<br>
setup to be able to capture and display recording into HD.<br>
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My current setup:<br>
I currently get my TV from OTA (analog and digital) and cable (analog<br>
and clear QAM only). Right now I only have 2 PVR-150 cards on my Myth BE<br>
to capture the cable's and OTA analog channels. I also have an HDTV now,<br>
with dual co-ax inputs (one is used for cable and the other for OTA). I<br>
don't use a FE for watching my recordings. Instead I use a combination<br>
of mythweb for programming and I have a job for transcoding to Xvid.<br>
After I either burn to DVD and watch on a DVD player or I use my Archos<br>
605 to view my recording.<br>
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My (potentially) next purchase:<br>
Now I've been thinking on getting an HDHomerun for capturing, but I<br>
still need a way to view my HD recording on my TV.<br>
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My questions:<br>
What would be the cheapest way on doing this?<br>
Theoretically could the new HD-PVR be used to playback my recordings or<br>
does it just playback its own H.264 AVCHD video format?<br>
Is there a someone that makes an appliance like the MediaMVP but for HD?<br>
How would I go about transcoding HD recordings so that a regular DVD<br>
player or my Archos 605 be able to playback the recording? How powerful<br>
of a BE would I need to do something like that?<br>
Would a WinTV HVR-1950 from hauppauge be better then HDHomerun?<br>
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Any other low cost suggestions are welcomed.</blockquote>
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<div>What cost is low cost to you? </div>
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In terms of cost I'm willing to spend the $170 needed for the HDHomerun
and another $200 for a frontend solution. But I'd be ready to only buy
the HDHomerun, and temporarily transcode my recordings so a DivX DVD
player could play it. And in like 6 months buy whatever I needed for my
FE.
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<div>And what are the specs on your backend because with a decent
enough processor for transcoding/commflagging HD, you could just as
easily add in a relatively inexpensive video card that supports XvMC
and do HD playback from your backend as well.</div>
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CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+<br>
RAM: 768MB SDRAM<br>
VIDEO CARD: Asus V7700 AGP (nVidia Corporation NV15 [GeForce2 GTS/Pro])<br>
But I also have a more powerful ATI Radeon 9600 SE.<br>
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<div>Despite the power. the Radeon won't do you any good for Linux as
it lacks any kind of hardware accelleration support. You *might* be
able to do XvMC with that processor if you were to try say an Nvidia
FX5200 AGP. That card has excellent XvMC support and you could find a
DVI version and run DVI-HDMI to your TV. I think that is most
inexpensive route (assuming the XvMC works well enough with that
processor. I think I had HD running on my Athlon 1800 with a 440MX at
one point so I think it will work). Otherwise, if you were to build a
frontend, I would strongly recommend getting enough CPU to decode
regardless of video card (Dual core, etc) so that you won't have to
worry about all this stuff in the future. I can't imagine spending all
the cash on an HDTV and HDTV tuners only to transcode everything down
to DVD to watch. You're missing half the joy of MythTV.</div>
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The transcoding would only be a temporary solution so that I can slowly
built up to a full HD system without busting my family's budget. The
HDTV I got from by using the points from my credit card's Aeroplan.<br>
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I'll do some reading up on XvMC in the wiki before deciding on the
Nvidia card, but it does sound like very low cost solution.<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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