[mythtv-users] My Potential Setup

dean javu deanjavu298 at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 5 00:37:33 UTC 2005


A PVR350 has video out with built-in harware decoder.  A PVR250/150 does not have TV out.  Most likely, you find your video card already has a TV out, whether it is an SVideo or DVI.  All Hauppauge PVR150/250/350 cards use harware encoders and they don't tax your system CPU.  Mine is a dual Pentium III 933MHz with 512 MB RAM, system monitor shows about 20-40% peak CPU utilization with about 120-350 MB peak RAM use.

Todd Houle <thoule at wesleyan.edu> wrote:I'm looking to build the following MythTV setup - please let me know if I'm on the right track.  

Computer: Dell GX 240 (1.7GHz)    512MB Ram     160GB HD   OS: Fedora (just downloaded today)



I'm looking to buy a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR350 to get the remote and receiver and a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150 MCE with 2 catv inputs. Will the CPU handle the encoding of 3 inputs considering that the 350 model is supposed to do brainwork on the card instead of the CPU?  Can I use the 150 to get the remote (or that doesn't include a receiver i guess) and don't need the 350?  I need to keep costs down as low as possible or my wife won't let me do this  ;)  I see newegg.com has decent prices.  


What do I need to connect to the TV?  I think the PVR 350 or even the 150 have TV out on them?  Or do I need to buy a video card with TV out?  


I'd like to build a basic box and then eventually build separate client and server systems. 


Thanks!
    Todd


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Todd Houle
Apple Certified System Administrator 



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