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[Ciaran]

I use twin Hauppauge NovaT PCIs on a Celeron 2.4Ghz, and there is CPU
space aplenty for recording TV on both cards, and watching a recording
at the same.  They take very little CPU at all , its mainly the
playback (mpeg decoding) that has the cpu hit, but even then, I'm well
under <20% CPU usage.  (Commerical flagging is an altogether different
question, I have that turned off!)

But do try and get at least 2 cards or you'll get scheduling conflicts
depressingly often, its worth the initial outlay, honest ;)
- Ciaran


On 26/09/05, Ben Edwards <Ben.Edwards at flybe.com> wrote:
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> I'm new to this list but have thinking about building a MythTV box of a year
> or so.  I've now started ordering bits (well a antec overture II case) and
> am planning on using a  Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t freeview PCI card and
> Ubuntu/512MB memory.  As you can probably imagine, I have a few questions.
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> Firstly what processor should I get. I had a AMD Sempron 3000+ to 3400+ in
> mind.  What I was hoping on being able to do is allow the TV card to do the
> recording and have enough oomth in the CPU to be able to decode/play at the
> same time as recording or do I need two TV cards to do this.  Being able to
> play and record at the same time is very important to me.  How do I wire
> things up to record/play at the same time.  If I had two cards would I have
> one wired to record an the other to play and do they have to be the same
> cards?
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> Is the  'Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t PCI card' a good choice or are there other
> freeview cards I should consider (freeview is the relatively new free to
> view TV service here in the UK).  I am assuming here that I should go for a
> internal PCI card because I am not sure about compatibility with external
> USB cards although having a external card is better from the point of you of
> interference.
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> Regards,
> Ben
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