[mythtv-users] my experience with Asus Pundit / PVR 250
zaphod at comcast.net
zaphod at comcast.net
Tue Aug 5 18:14:38 EDT 2003
<Editorial>
Your looking at $260 processors and $170-$300 DVD drives for your box and $150
is too much? Switch that to a 2G Celeron for $67 and the savings will pay for
TWO (2) Hauppauge Freestyle PVR card (ivtv-compatible). True you don't get a
remote, but you get better RCA audio inputs (IMO). Besides the Hauppauge remote
is good for little more than proof of concept . . .
</Editorial>
Value added content follows:
My 2G Celeron/Pundit is fine playing back PVR250 streams, with 65-70% CPU IDLE.
I am currently having issues with live-tv freezing. I believe its an
out-of-memory issue related to the play back cache. Currently have 256MB less
8M shared video memory. top typically shows less than 5000K free while watching
live-tv, one extra process spawn (for whatever reason) and you freeze the playback.
The machine is not locked or frozen, still responds to ssh and alternate shells
(Ctrl-Alt-F2). Given enough time, or remote button fiddling the front-end will
recover without crashing.
Should I just bump the memory, or should I try something else.
-Eric
> Thanks for the write-up. I just ordered a pundit and the LeadTek
> tv2000xp deluxe. I tought about the pvr, but $150 was too much for me
> to spend, and I never get rebates back in the mail. I'm trying to guage
> how much processing power I will need -- esp as I hope to get another
> capture card in there. I'm thinking of a 2.8G p4. I'm also hoping that
> some some case modding will solve the size issue (tight fit for PCI
> cards).
>
> I was also thinking of getting a DVD burner for archiving purposes.
> Does anyone have any suggestions? I really havn't bothered doing any
> research in this front...
>
> -r
>
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