<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 05:26:36 pm Phil Wild wrote:<br />> I am in Australia so I will only be dealing with DVB-T and MPEG2 streams.<br /><br>
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Hi Phil, I live in Brisbane and have built a MythTV system to basically your specs, so hopefully I can help out.<br /><br>
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><br />> I was originally looking at the HDHomeRun after posting a long time<br />> ago but this card still has not been released so I am giving up on<br />> it...<br /><br>
<br />Its USA only. Will never be available here. Not compatible with DVB-T I believe.<br /><br>
><br />> I am starting from scratch.<br />><br />> I would like to output video and audio through HDMI to my receiver.<br /><br>
Can be done. I personally use DVI-HDMI + 5.1 Analog output. I believe people have done sound over HDMI using the various Nvidia chipsets - probably best to ask that one separately. There was a thread earlier on the subject.<br /><br>
> I want to support (HD) 1080i broadcasts.<br /><br>
Not a problem.<br /><br>
> What is a good dual tuner card?<br /><br>
The Nova-T 500 is good:<br /> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500<br />Also the Fusion Dual Digital 4:<br /> http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_PCI_Cards#DViCO<br /><br>
<br />> What is a good video/sound card?<br /><br>
Get NVidia! ATI will give you endless grief. Get a motherboard with a GF8200 or better and a HDMI out, should be able to get one for around $100.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>The 8200+ range support VDPAU - Nvidia's new linux HD PureVideo spec and mythtv will support that on its next release. Its brilliant - 1080p playback at less than 10% CPU.<br /><br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> What is a good case (slim and quiet)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Antec do a great line of quiet cases, I have a NSK2480b, looks great *very* quiet. But if you want quite you need to pay attention to the power supply and the hard disk as well. the NSK2480 comes with its own (quiet) PSU.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Hard disk - get a Western Digitial Green Power 1 *Terabyte*. Excellent value for money and quiet.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>If you want a quiet low power server - quiet/low power generally go together, Silent PC Review is a brilliant resource:<br>
http://www.silentpcreview.com/<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> ><br />> I want to keep the cost below $1000 but preferably less...<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Its doable ...<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> I am looking at this as a better than beyonwiz type solution as in I<br />> can also use the system for email/web browsing etc.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>My combined F/B also doubles up as a mailserver, webserver, subversion server and file server. Never been a problem.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p><p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Word of Advice : Avoid Wireless like the plague, its a PITA and never as fast as advertised.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I detailed my build on my blog:<br>
http://blackpaw-mythtv.blogspot.com/<br>
<br />Cheers,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>-- <br />Lindsay Mathieson<br />http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home</p></body></html>