[mythtv-users] Hardware Recommendation

[Joe Votour]

You will not be able to fit all of this in a Shuttle
machine.  The only configurations from them that I
know about are either 1 PCI, 1 AGP, or 2 PCI.

The All-In-Wonder is basically useless for MythTV.  It
is not capable of being used as a TV-In input for
MythTV (if I recall correctly, it does not function
correctly as a V4L device), and TV-Out with it is
difficult at best.  Please search through the mailing
list archive for why the AIW cards will not work.

Thus, a dual tuner setup will require 2 PCI slots,
becuase you'll need two cards.  This won't fit in the
small Shuttle cases, unless you have 2 PCI, and manage
to have on-board TV-Out (or VGA and a scan converter)
that works with Linux.

My MythTV machine is currently a regular ATX
motherboard, and I will be putting it into an ATX
desktop case (as soon as I find one that's not out of
stock somewhere).  I will have two tuners, wireless
(PCI), and a Matrox G400 for TV-Out.

-- Joe

--- Robert La Ferla <robertlaferla at comcast.net> wrote:
> Looking to set up a MythTV server w/small footprint
> (e.g. Shuttle), 
> region-free DVD-ROM and dual tuner capability.  I 
> have CATV (analog) 
> but would like satellite and HDTV in the future. 
> What hardware 
> configuration do you recommend?  What about the ATI
> All-In-Wonder 9800?
> 
> Also, does MythTV do closed-captioning?  Does
> MythDVD do foreign 
> language / subtitles?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
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