[ale] Best processor for MythTV?

[Charles Shapiro]

Yeh, the only thing that scares me about the 500 is that generally it's sold
without a remote control. I'm not too terribly sure I want to get into the
whole remote-control Thing on my first time out w/ MythTV.

-- CHS


On 5/22/06, Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us> wrote:
>
> Barlow, Jim D wrote:
> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > For the past year and change I've been using a PVR 350 with 2.4 (pre HT)
> P4  and a 5200 Nvidia on Gentoo.   It works great.   I don't use the
> hardware decode, as it was more time to mess with than I had and have had no
> pauses or glitches with software decode.   You should be in good shape.
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> >> Heh. Well, I missed the $80 300 gb drives at Fry's. But I got a 400 gb
> one for $130 or so.
> >
> >> After actually doing my research I found that chip sizing for MythTV is
> kind of a Can o' Worms (
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1 ), >and depends
> heavily on what PVR card you choose. So thanks for the advice, and now I
> understand that the question is perhaps deeper than I thought.  Anyways, >at
> Fry's I picked up a 2.4 ghz P4 for this machine. From what I can see, this
> should be more than adequate for use with a Hauppauge card using hardware
> mpeg2 >encoding. I'm still on the fence about the PVR card -- the 350 with
> its hardware mpeg2 decoding is tempting, but I'm warned that's deprecated.
> Heck, it might be >best with that kind o' muscle to just do the decoding in
> software, which makes me lean toward the 250 or 150.  Of course, I'm really
> motivated to try to fix up the >FM radio stuff, because I'd actually use
> that..
>
> Me too. I run a 350 with an nvidia 5200. If I change anything, it'll be to
> swap the 350 for a 500
> so I can record 2 channels at the same time. It's too bad they haven't
> come out with the HDTV
> equivalent of a 500 yet. :)
>
>
> --
> Jesse Guardiani
> Programmer/Sys Admin
> jesse at guardiani.us
>
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