[mythtv-users] Hardware "Survey" (Pundit-R)

Mark L. Cukier mark at pemicro.com
Sun Nov 21 15:01:42 UTC 2004


Out of curiosity, why were you using the mobo tv-out instead of the one 
on the 350?

- Mark

Ryszard wrote:

>i put a 350 in my pundit-r with no problems at all.  note the network
>card is only working natively from kernel 2.6.8 or something (i'm
>using 2.6.9).
>
>i had a bit of trouble with my initial setups, and tuning my 350, but
>finally got it sorted.  the onboard svideo out (on the mobo) requires
>the ati 3.12 driver with a couple of hex edited values - a no brainer
>really.
>
>using the tv out on the mobo coupled with live tv i found i got a very
>slow framerate, pretty unwatchable really, but playing from
>/dev/video0 with mplayer it was fine.
>
>i'm piping hte sound from the 350 into the line in, and it works
>perfectly, and now have video coming out of the hardware decoder
>(/dev/video16), however i've found the screen is a little oversize. 
>specifically, the picture is hanging out the top, left and bottom
>sides of the screen, with a little blue line on the right hand side. 
>something i've got to go and tweak now...
>
>the pundit-r i think is a pretty good machine, quiet fer sure..  it
>will be replacing my video and dvd players once perfected..
>
>good luck with it, its a cool project.. :-)
>
>
>On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:24:41 -0500, Khanh Tran <khanh at slc.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>I've got two PVR-250s in my Pundit.  No problems.  You'll see what
>>everyone is talking about when they say they're bending the case a
>>little.  It's no big deal and you really won't have any issues.  I'm
>>running SuSE 9.0 on it for MythTV.  No sound or driver issues here, with
>>any of the onboard devices.
>>
>>Congratulations.  You've just taken your first step into a much larger
>>world.
>>
>>-Khanh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mark L. Cukier
>>Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 2:14 PM
>>To: Discussion about mythtv
>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Hardware "Survey" (Pundit-R)
>>
>>Hello to All:
>>
>>I'm in the process of setting up mythtv on my current computer. I've
>>allready ordered the PVR-350.
>>
>>I was initially going to be reasonable and set everything up on my
>>desktop to make sure it was working before I went out and splurged on a
>>new dedicate system. BUT... in the process of setup, reading, etc I've
>>gotten myself too excited about all the awesome features of myth (I'm
>>currently an avid TiVo user/fan.. but this story has convinced me it's
>>time to eBay the TiVo and move to Myth:
>>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=1&u=/latimests/ti
>>vowillnolongerskippastadvertisers
>>) . To heck with reasonable, I'm going to splurge.
>>
>>I have my eyes on the Pundit-R... I heard someone comment that the
>>PVR-250 "barely" fit into their pundit system. I noticed the 350 is a
>>bit longer! Does anyone here have a Pundit-R with a 350? I'm just
>>looking for confirmation that it will fit before I order the case.
>>
>>I'd also be interested to hear any other recomendations for a sleek,
>>small case (with two PCI slots)-- or any other hardware recomendations.
>>I heard this site was a good place to go for hardware setups
>>http://pvrhw.goldfish.org/tiki-pvrhwdb.php .... but it doesn't seem to
>>work!
>>
>>Thanks in Advance,
>>   Mark
>>
>>JTJones wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>It looks like a nice board with no AGP, PCI or ISA slots, proprietary
>>>form factor and proprietary power supply connection.  As long as
>>>someone has a lot of time and is really good at figuring out power
>>>connections and wants to make their own case, it should work great...
>>>oh ya, and if you don't want to add any expansion cards to it the board
>>>      
>>>
>>would be fine.
>>    
>>
>>>Jones
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Jack Burghardt" <jack at colades.dyndns.org>
>>>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>>Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 12:22 PM
>>>Subject: [mythtv-users] Great motherboard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Computer geeks has this cool motherboard for pentium 4
>>>>http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=9SLF0-U
>>>>and 10% percent off SHOPPERSRESOURC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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