[mythtv-users] Hardware recommendations

[Louie Foster]

Thanks for the reply ed, josh. so, it sounds like if I want something quiet I will
want to do a front end and use my existing server for the backend. Are there
specific hardware that will work really well without choppyness and/or osd
flickering?

Louie Foster (louie at fosternet.org) wrote:
>
>Hello all,
>  I have some quick questions hopefully, I have searched through the archives and
>come up with multiple possibilities of hardware configurations for mythtv, but
>being totally ignorant with PVR's and tv capture encoding/decoding and such, I
>would like some recommendations for the following desires.
>A standalone computer as quiet as humanly possible. I am not linux savvy enough to
>jump into front ends(yet). I was thinking the ITX stuff but I keep reading a lot
>of messages about jumpy OSD and playback, are their certain cards that will
>eliminate these side effects? IF there is no fix, is it something that will/could
>be fixed in the future?
>Sound, I'd prefer using the DAC's on my reciever rather than the built in audio,
>is this possible with the VIA ITX boards?
>
>Thanks in advance for any recommendations.
>
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