[mythtv-users] Recommended Hardware for MythTV

[Harry Orenstein]

>From: "Jon Waite" <jon at jonwaite.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Recommended Hardware for MythTV
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:12:49 +1300
>
>I've had a search through the list archives, but can't really find anything
>appropriate for this apart from some vague recommendations on CPU speed.
>
>I've like to build a machine to act as a MythTV backend connected to my
>digital satellite decoder for recording / viewing via TV and also to serve
>live and/or recorded video to my home PC network.
>
>Ideally I'd like to build a small form factor machine based on a microATX
>motherboard / case with a PVR-350 card for capture and TV-Out (and hardware
>MPEG-2 encoding/decoding). Does anyone have specific recommendations for
>CPU/Motherboard combinations (microATX size) that work well with MythTV ?
>Any to avoid ? I'd like to use an onboard RAID 0 stripe across 2 IDE hard
>drives for performance and capacity, but haven't seen any microATX
>motherboards with onboard RAID 0, so any recommendations for PCI RAID 0 IDE
>cards that work well with Linux ?
>
>I'd also appreciate any recommendations for which Linux distribution to use
>in this environment, I'm already fairly familiar with Debian and Mandrake,
>but have never really got to grips with video in X. Recompiling code, 
>device
>modules and kernels is no problem though.
>
>Would also appreciate hearing from any other MythTV users in New Zealand,
>particularly with regards to whether schedule information is available in a
>form that is useable by MythTV for satellite channels ?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help / recommendations.
>
>Apologies if this is all documented already somewhere and I've missed it, 
>if
>so please forgive me and provide a link.
>
>Jon.
>
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As others have said, make sure you really need a different
motherboard before giving up on your chipset.  That being
said, I LOVE my Asus A7V8X-X mobo.  It is KT400 and I
have never had any interrupt problems with it at all.  It is
also dirt cheap and a perfect mobo for Myth.


-- Harry O.

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