[mythtv-users] Baby Steps 2

[Eric Broszeit]

I would think it to be fine for SD

On 2/13/07, mythtvster <mythtvster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think I am not going to rely on this box for HD.  Do you think it will
> suffice for SD?
>
> On 2/13/07, Steven Adeff < adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/12/07, mythtvster < mythtvster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am looking for advice on a system I have laying around that I would
> > like
> > > to use as a PVR. I have an old Dell Dimension Pentium III collecting
> > dust
> > > that I would like to upgrade to use solely as a PVR. It only has an
> > onboard
> > > video card and 128MB RAM so this would have to be upgraded correct?
> > >
> > >  Since it is only a PCI board what video card(s) are recommended? Do I
> > need
> > > a video card to encode and decode or will one card suffice? I would
> > like to
> > > hook this up to a 40" LCD via component or HDMI/DVI if at all possible
> > - do
> > > they even make a vanilla PCI card (with Linux drivers available) that
> > will
> > > handle this?
> > >
> > >  I plan on bulking the memory up to 512 (it's max), will this be
> > sufficient?
> > >
> > > Would this system be OK for a backend?  I do not not want to dump a
> > whole
> > > lot into it (including time) if the core system is not good enough.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > If you plan on recording HD you will need to use XvMC for playback as
> > the PCI bus is not fast enough without it. Just a heads up.
> >
> > --
> > Steve
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