[mythtv-users] MythTV shopping list

[Rob Hudson]

Hello,

I'm planning on taking a fairly old box and making a MythTV server out
of it.  I'm in the process of making a shopping list, trying to find the
right pieces that work with Linux.

Here's my planned system so far:

AMD-K62 500 MHz CPU
256 MB RAM
40 GB HD

Need to buy:
TV Tuner card: LeadTek TV2000 XP Deluxe 
PCI Wireless card: Netgear MA311 PCI
Video card with TV out: Suggestions?

Can anyone comment on the choice of cards and how well they are
supported?  If not well, maybe suggestions for others?  I was looking
for fairly inexpensive cards and linux support.  I like the fact that
the TV2000 has IR built-in, but haven't found too much online on the
support of it.

It's a slow processor by today's standards.  My hope was that if the TV
card can do the encoding in hardware, that'll free up some processing
for the other tasks.  I hope this isn't a bad assumption.

I plan to use Debian since that it was I'm most familiar with.

Thanks for any help,
Rob