[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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