[mythtv-users] New MythTV System help

Richard Chaney rchaney at kc.rr.com
Sun Jan 30 17:17:06 EST 2005


I've has concerns about the airflow but to date the temp is OK.  However, 
there are no tuners installed and only one HD.  Cases can be changed, my 
main concern now is what to put in it.  :-))

Thanks for your input, Greg.

Richard

At 09:15 PM 1/30/2005 +0000, you wrote:
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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