[mythtv-users] New MythTV System help

Greg greg.d at cwgsy.net
Sun Jan 30 16:15:40 EST 2005


Looks good to me apart from the overture case, I think they are pants, no
where near enough air flow and not as quiet as I'd like.

Greg

> 
> To all the experts out there.
> 
> My goal is to have a PVR to record OTA ATSC/NTSC and Firewire 
> from a Cable STB.  Would like ability to record 2/watch 1 
> w/pause-rewind etc. 
> (mostly ATSC) with plans to have enough disk space to save 
> things until BlueRay/????? is available for archive.
> 
> I had not done enough research, when I started, and planned 
> to do it all with XP and MCE 2005 w/ATI tuners.  Well, that's 
> not going to happen so I've spent the last month reading 
> forums, looking for software to do it. 
>   I looked a SAGE, the MDP-120/130 software etc.  The only 
> thing I've found that even has a chance of doing all of this 
> is "MythTV".  I have limited experience with Linux so that 
> concerns me, a little, but my main concern is: will my system 
> support the (software encode/decode)of 2ea HD-3000s and a PVR-250/350.
> 
> The equipment I bought is as follows:
> 
> Intel D915PBL 800 FSB motherboard
> P4 550 3.4g CPU
> 1024m DDR2/533 memory
> eVGA eGeFORCE 6600 Video (PCIe x16)
> 300g SATA HD - to start (room for 3 more drives) Audio is 
> on-board Intel "High Def." (7.1 I think) Plextor PX-716A 
> double layer cd/dvd Mandrake 10.1 Antec Overture case 
> (Haven't bought the tuners yet)
> 
> Everyone seems to be happy with the pcHDTV tuners and the 
> PVR-250/350's but I'm concerned with the heavy CPU workload 
> of the HD-3000's in a possible situation of 2 HDTV recording 
> sessions while watching a recorded HDTV program.  Is there 
> any chance the MDP-120/130s, with hardware encode/decode, are 
> supported by MythTV? Also, does MythTV support Firewire?  Do 
> I have a better choice of tuners?
> 
> Well, that's probably more than anyone wants to digest at one time.
> Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 



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