[aclug-L] Re: MythTV et al (was Re: Ideas for June Meeting?)

[ironrose <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I recommend the Hauppauge 250 tuner card, it is the standard that MythTV 
was made for.  The CPU needs to be about 2Gb or more.  I would suggest 
512Mb of RAM.

If you want to have a front end & a backend, then the backend needs to 
be faster since it will have the tuner and recording the TV programs.  
The frontend is to watch the TV programs and burn to CD or DVD.  Atleast 
that is what I have read and heard about.

I haven't tried and Xbox, but from what I have been told the MythTV is 
simular to the Xbox home entertainment system software. 

I'm hoping that we can get enough interest to get the PVR group going 
again.  ~Anne

Jonathan Hall wrote:

>I see a lot of discussion now about MythTV... I'm thinking of jumping into
>this world before long.  Actually, I've installed MythTV using my old WinTV
>401 card, just to play with.  Haven't really used it seriously.  But I'm
>thinking of buying some hardware in the upcoming months with this in mind.
>What are some good usable-minimum hardware requirements for a frontend?
>I've read of people using X-Boxes for this... has anyone on this group done
>that with any success?  Or have any other hardware recommendations?
>
>Thanks
>
>-- Jonathan
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>From: "gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman)" <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:48 PM, ironrose wrote:
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>>>I haven't got around to putting the side panel back on.  It was so
>>>handy
>>>to lay extra parts on and so it never made it back to the side of the
>>>case.  I am thinking about moving the tuner to another pc to be the
>>>back-end and make this pc the front end.  The current pc is high-end
>>>enough to where it should handle the load fine, but I have another case
>>>that does a better job of cooling down the cpu that this case does.  I
>>>will also run the memory test.
>>>
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>>is the case supported by lmsensors?  that's a great way to monitor temp
>>and be alerted if anything goes wrong ...
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>>also, remember that some cases are designed to work the best with the
>>side panel on, so leaving it off may not make it cooler because air
>>flow wouldn't be optimal ...
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>>i split up my myth frontend and backend recently (moved the backend to
>>a gentoo-based AMD system) and noticed a significant drop in
>>temperature of the former frontend/backend combo ... at the same time,
>>i even removed one of my extra fans!  i have one more i want to remove
>>and see what the temp is like, because i have a feeling it's the
>>loudest one (and my desktop machine could use the extra air movement)
>>...
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>>-g-
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