[plug] MythTV ??

[Senectus -]

I was thinking of buying another one of these:
http://www.optima.com.au/product_modeldt.asp?ModelID=17

I bought one for my S.O.... and I'm so tempted to Gentoo it ;-)


Hyper Thread CPU
half a gig of decent DDR
DVD burner
Supports SATA as well..
Damn nice machine for around $1000.00.. All it needs is a decent graphics 
card and it set..


Senectus

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that said it though)




>From: Trevor Phillips <T.Phillips at murdoch.edu.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: Re: [plug] MythTV ??
>Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:03:40 +0800
>
>On Tuesday 08 June 2004 09:14, chris.griffin at swiftdsl.com.au wrote:
> > I would be very interested in hearing any info on this. It is something 
>I
> > would very much like to do as well.
>
>I've created a similar box using Freevo (and given the resources, I'd make
>another one or two ^_^), although I'm not using it for the TV side of 
>things
>yet (although one of these days I'll get a nice PCI digital receiver card 
>to
>put in it).
>
>Hardware depends on a lot of things, and there's not really a definitive 
>guide
>out there. My system is a cheapo SFF Chyang Fun case with a Celeron 2.2GHz
>(Ugh! Celerons suck so badly! If only I had've known...). I'm currently 
>using
>an ATI Radeon 9600XT video card, since the box dual-boots into "GameOS" 
>(now
>if only the CPU... Gah!).
>
>If I was going to start from scratch again, then I'd probably either look 
>at a
>MicroATX form motherboard & case (Antec have some really nice ones. 
>*drool*)
>with a cheapo Athlon/Duron chip - or for a more expensive solution, go with
>MiniITX (http://www.mini-itx.com/) (or NanoITX. Mmmm. Nanode...) with a
>really small case.
>
>The ATI has been great for media purposes. TV-out works a dream. OpenGL 
>sucks
>the big one. I'm an accursed optimist - but even I'm disillusioned by ATI's
>complete lack of driver support this year.
>
>So get a cheapo GeForce card, with a decent TV out. ^_^
>
>You don't overly need lots of CPU grunt unless:
>   - You have a crappy video card which won't nicely hardware-scale video 
>for
>playback
>   - You want to encode video on the fly
>   - You want to play massive (resolution) quicktime files
>
>The second may sound really important - except if you use a digital 
>receiver
>card, then AFAIK, the video comes in compressed, and can be saved directly 
>to
>disk compressed, negating the need for real-time video compression.
>
>Alternately, you can always stick a video card in a beefier machine (like 
>that
>gateway/file/web server in the study), and use it for recording programs, 
>to
>play back on a more light-weight box in the living/lounge.
>
>--
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