[mythtv-users] Upgrading an ancient box

[Kristo Kriechbaum]

Hi,

I am finally getting around to updating my horribly out of date FE/BE 
combo.  It's running 0.24.1 on Fedora Core 12!  It has been sort of a 
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it" thing.  The statistics page on mythweb 
tell me I've been using MythTV for 11.5 years!  It's been great.

The new box will again be a FE/BE combo.  I have 2 video sources, 1 
HDHomeRun (2 tuners) for OTA channels, and 1 Hauppage HD PVR for 
DirecTV.  Video output is to an HD television, audio goes to my receiver.

I plan to get a SSD for the OS and DB, and I have a newer 3 TB drive to 
use for recordings.  I could use some suggestions on 
motherboard/cpu/graphics.  I've generally used Nvidia cards in the past 
and have been quite happy with them.  I would prefer to have a graphics 
solution where most if not all of the decoding gets offloaded.

I will also probably need some help getting the DB moved over to the new 
system.  I haven't been reading this list for a while, but I recall that 
0.24 is old enough that newer versions don't even know how to upgrade 
the DB.

Thanks,
Kristo