[TriLUG] mythtv ramblings and a questions about december mythtv presentation

[Myrhillion]

Hmm, I hadn't realized how "cheap" relatively the athlon xp's have 
become (haven't built a rig in a while).   I might just have to build
a whole new computer for this project  (*laughs maniacally*). 

However, I'm wondering if the duron 800 I have will do with a hauppauge 
PVR-250.
Do you have any problems recording and watching a totally different show 
with your setup, even when it's like
timeshifted to skip commercials?

Anyway, I'm getting more excited about actually doing this from the 
feedback I've received from the list.
I had actually read up on the FC3 mythtv howto you mentioned.  It seems 
a bit complicated but doable.

I may still stick with gentoo for the distro.  I'll have to sign-up to 
that myth user list next.
Thanks for info Ken, it's appreciated seeing what other folks are using.

Doug Taggart

Ken Mink wrote:

>I just finished building a MythTV box a couple of months ago. I'm now
>using it full time. I'm very happ with it and rarely switch over to my
>TiVo.
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>I'm using a 2600 Barton processor(overkill) and 512MB RAM. I bought a
>Samsung SP160N HD. The Samsung drives are QUIET. I mean I thought the
>drive was DOA when I installed it because I couldn't even hear it spin
>up. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-VM/400. I'm using it's built-in
>Geforce4 w/tv-out and it's built-in sound. I'm also using a Hauppauge
>PVR-250 as a tuner.
>
>I went with FC3 as a base and used the ATRPMS repostitory for the myth
>installation. There's a great how-to for installing MythTV on FC. As
>long as you read and follow it carefully, you'll have MythTV up and
>running in no time.
>
>As for your question about the PVR-250 vs 350. The 350 has it's own
>tv-out capabilities. This includes a built-in mpeg decode. Both cards
>have encoders. The theory is that with a 350, the card does both the
>encoding and decoding and your cpu doesn't have to get involved. From
>what I've read, the 350's tv-out can be a pain to configure. On the
>myth-users list, I see a lot of people that have 350s, but don't use
>it's output capabilities.
>
>Good Luck,
>Ken
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>On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:50:02 -0500, Myrhillion <lug at blackwizard.net> wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>I have recently gotten interested in building a mythtv box.
>>I checked my trilug messages and found there was a meeting in December
>>which featured mythtv.
>>Drats, I've missed my opportunity.
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>>Does anyone know if the presentation is available online somewhere?
>>I'd like to discuss what people have for hardware too.
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>>Here is the basic machine I'm considering.
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>>I'm considering recycling an athlon duron 800 with 512 mb ram.
>>I'm thinking gentoo or a debian based distro like ubuntu for the OS.
>>The machine by itself would be too slow so,  I'm going to buy a tv card,
>>probably a hauppage (sp?) wintv 250 or 350.
>>Has anyone seen any benefit of the 350 over the 250 in practice?
>>    Any other tv tuners people have been impressed with to use for this
>>purpose?
>>I'll be adding a larger hard drive, probably 200gb range.
>>A wireless nic so I can save some of the shows I want to keep to a
>>larger file server and to grab the xmltv feed.
>>This will also make it simple to keep downstairs with the stereo tv etc..
>>
>>Doug Taggart
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