On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Mark Knecht <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Vintage Celeron. Still, if I Get the HDHR then all it can do is fail<br>
and I move on from there as necessary.<br>
</blockquote><div><br><br>Won't know till you try. The old Celery's are a little on the slow side for HD though. XvMC will work for OTA ATSC signals. If you think you might want to play back something some complex in the future, like h264, get a card that can do VDPAU. NVidia 8 or 9 series cards are reasonably priced and will get the job done. Even PCI cards will work with VDPAU. The current MythTV can't use it, but the next release will be able to. And if you want to deal with the trunk releases, you can go that route as well. <br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The machine currently has two PVR-150's in it. I suspect that asking<br>
it to record 2 SD channels, at the same time 2 HD channels, and<br>
possibly play back 3 streams to different TVs in the house is asking<br>
WAY too much of this little machine, but it might be fun to try it. As<br>
I say, I could possibly use the Mac Mini with the HDHR as a secondary<br>
backend.</blockquote><div><br><br>Perhaps. It's all about network and I/O bandwidth at that point. The Mac Mini would work well as a slave backend though. And more drives = more bandwidth so that's always a good place to start. A firewire drive or two should get the job done for you. <br>
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