[mythtv-users] Dream Machine

Joseph Jamieson jjamieson at futurefoundations.com
Sat Apr 5 06:02:35 UTC 2003


As far as RedHat or Gentoo; I use Gentoo and I really like it quite a
bit.  Nice, fast, easy to manage.   I'm sure you know the downsides of
having to compile the entire system from source.

I had a lot of trouble getting xmltv to work.  There were a lot of
dependency issues (some of xmltv's dependencies don't work on perl
5.8..) Eventually I just downgraded perl to 5.6.1, and I had to muck
around with moving some of the perl stuff to the right directories.  It
wasn't too hard, and I don't use perl for anything else except Webmin.

Overall I'm still very happy with Gentoo, and if you're looking to
squeeze every last ounce of power out of your machine, Gentoo will help
provide this.   Might be worth it for MythTV.

And once you're running it's very easy to keep it up to date.  You never
have to upgrade to the latest "release" since all you have to do is run
a simple command and you'll have all the new stuff =)  (well, maybe 10
hours later...)

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Sagowitz [mailto:sagz at sagz.dynip.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 12:04 AM
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] Dream Machine

Hello all,

I've been using Showshifter for 6 months now but would like to try
MythTV.

I was going to build a new showshifter machine and now I want to make 
sure that I'm taking MythTV into account when deciding system specs

I want to use dual TV cards and from what I've read the Hauppauge 401 is

the one.

So what would you recommend?

Below is what I have planned can you see any problems?

2400+ AMD XP Processor?
ASUS A7N8X MB?
1GB Samsung 2700 DDRRam?
ATI 9000 Radeon 64mb w/TV out Video Card?
2 Hauppauge 401 cards
120GB Maxtor 5400 (for noise reasons)
Onboard LAN
Onboard sound
Distro Redhat 8.0 or Gentoo
I want to be able to use MythTV to its fullest

Thanks

Brad

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