[mythtv-users] Upgrade Suggestions - currently on myth 0.21 with PVR150, 250, 350

[Richard Morton]

As I don't know the tuner cards you are talking about it would help to know
your territory, your tv reception coonection and transport type (atsc dvbt
dvbc dvbs fios etc)

R

Please excuse brevity and pistakes this email was composed on a mobile
phone.

Thanks and best regards,

Richard
On Jul 2, 2011 10:03 PM, "James Pifer" <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
> I've been running Myth since the 0.14 days. Couldn't live without it and
> WAF is fairly high except for a couple nagging issues we've been
> having.
>
> 1) I'm running my mythbackend on a Dell Poweredge 1600SC. It
> occasionally locks up. It's totally random and I believe it's hardware
> related. Plus, on top of that, one of the fans has gone bad.
>
> 2) Next is the bigger problem I've been fighting for a long time. We get
> a lot of jumps or bad video in spots, but not on every video. I've
> tracked which inputs had the bad recordings, and it doesn't point to a
> specific card. I've ran with the unit open with a fan blowing on the
> cards, and with it closed running it's normally fans (until the one
> failed above). So I've never figured out of the cards are bad or not.
>
> So I want to upgrade the hardware and at the same time get to a more
> current release of mythtv. I currently have three PCI cards, 150, 250,
> 350, so finding a motherboard is doable, but limits me.
>
> I don't have HD cable, except for the free channels. My three separate
> frontends don't have enough power to do HD on their end, some I'm not in
> a hurry to do it anyway.
>
> SO, finally my questions:
>
> Any specific motherboard/CPU suggestions with at least 3 PCI slots?
>
> Are there any low priced, non-PCI options for replacing my Hauppauge
> cards?
>
> I also run a pretty powerful xen server and I know I could put
> mythbackend on there, but I can't use the PCI cards. I would have to
> replace the tuner cards. I could pass through some USB ports. I wouldn't
> mind doing it this way at all if I could do it and still have at least
> three tuners.
>
> Any alternative tuner options?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
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