<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:00 AM, JCA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:1.41421@gmail.com">1.41421@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
After a couple of years with MythTV 0.20 I am about to embark in a<br>
full upgrade - not only MythTV but also the Linux box running it. What<br>
kind of specs should my new box aim to meet? My current box is built<br>
around a Pentium 4 at 3 GHz, with 1 GB of memory, an Nvidia FX 5200<br>
video card and a Hauppauge PVR 150 capture card. I would like to<br>
capture HD video (which implies a new capture card - which one?) and<br>
this platform does not play well (if at all) HD videos - at best they<br>
are jerky.<br>
<br>
Will getting a multicore box help here?<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>Capture card wise it depends on where you are at and what you want to record. I've got a HDPVR (records component) and a pcHDTV 5500 and like them both. I've also heard great things about the HDHomerun. But i'm in the US, so if you live somewhere else you might need something different.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I just picked up one of these for a frontend <a href="http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-mag-hd-nd01.html">http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-mag-hd-nd01.html</a> and loaded Mythbuntu 10.04 on it. Everything seems to work OOTB and it plays back HD just fine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">