[mythtv-users] capture card

[James Howison]

Awesome, thanks Joshua.  Great to know.  This is just going to be a  
backend so I think I should be golden.

On Aug 29, 2005, at 5:32 AM, Joshua King wrote:


> Hi James,
>
> On 29/8/05 7:58 AM, "James Howison" <james at freelancepropaganda.com>  
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> Does anyone know if the minimum system requirements listed on the
>> Hauppauge site (ie PII 733Mhz for the PVR-150 and PIII 1.2GHz)
>> applies to using the cards under Linux and MythTV, or are those just
>> for the bundled windows software?
>>
>>
>
> That's for Windows. The absolute requirements for Linux/MythTV  
> would depend
> on what you use it for (is it a backend or a combined backend/ 
> frontend?).
>
> I put a PVR-150MCE (PAL) into my combined backend/frontend about 2  
> weeks ago
> now and its working fine. I'm using a PIII 550MHz, so you'll be fine.
> Playback would be your issue, but I guess that depends on your  
> graphics
> card. I transcode much of my content or stream it.
>
>
>
>> Any point in trying the PVR-150 in
>> a box with a PII 713Mhz?
>>
>>
>
> Yes. Works in mine, yours is faster and would have a faster bus so  
> I see no
> problems.
>
> Joshua King
>
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