[ale] MythTV/similar hardware recommendations

[Derek Atkins]

Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> writes:

> On 2016-03-30 07:33, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> writes:
>> 
>> Is this SD or HD?  Either way you'll need a capture card.  It's unlikely
>> an rPi will suffice for this unless you find a USB-based capture card
>> with onboard MPEG encoder.  For HD you might consider a Hauppauge HD-PVR
>> device.
>
> It's just SD.  I don't bother with HD because none of the programs I
> watch benefit from HD so it saves me an extra $25/month to not have it.
>  I wasn't planning an RPi for the main system, I was asking about the
> RPi as a client-only device for later.  this is a request for hardware
> suggestions for the primary box.  I suppose the HD-PVR could work but it
> appears I'd need to add a computer so that the box was remotely
> accessible for downloading and saving the video.  It seems Myth works
> with it sort of (model 1 works, model 2 does not).

You might consider a Hauppauge PVR-250.  It's got an SD input
(composite, svideo, or tuner) and will encode to MPEG in hardware.
However it does require a PCI slot.  C.f. ivtv

-derek

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