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

[gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) <glandix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 12, 2005, at 3:31 PM, Matt Pankratz wrote:

>
> Does the Hauppauge 250 do HDTV?  If not does anyone know of a good HDTV
> capable card that works with Myth?

your best bet would be to look thru the archives on the myth mailing 
list ... i'm on it and have seen people having varying degrees of 
success w/ HD ...


> ironrose said:
>> 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.
>>

this depends if you're having a dedicated backend or having your 
frontend/backend on the same box ... if you split, your frontend can be 
fairly light (only needs to be able to successfully decode the videos 
and display them on the res you're using) and the "beef" goes in your 
backend that goes down in the basement and can run as loud as it needs 
to cool down the hardware :) ... i'm doing that and love having them 
split ... have myth doing 540p on my frontend to my HDTV ... don't 
really use any of the TV functions yet (i just got my network run and 
rebuilt after buying a house [finally have a dedicated server room / 
wiring closet!]), but hope to soon ... it works great for a movie/music 
player, tho' ... both ripped and DVD movies running at 540p w/ AC/3 out 
to my surround system ... all works great!  frontend is temporarily 
running slack (w/ the 2.6 kernel) but will soon match the backend 
that's running gentoo ...

-g-


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