On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:56:06AM +0000, Jorn A Hansen wrote: > With your CPU I don't think you will need a card with MPEG encoding like > the PVR250. Get something with good driver support (a bt8x8 card > supported by the bttv drivers)
The advantage of the new PVR350 cards is both excellent hardware encoding with 0% CPU, and they have a framebuffer output driver so you can use it for input and output though I've never tested it. I have a Athlon 2000XP, and the hardware encoding is still worth it, especially since it takes all the headache out of audio synchronization and background recording. > I got an ATI All In Wonder Radeon that I got for approx. 50$. I heard > some rumours that at least some time ago ATI had better TV out quality > than NVidia. A lot of the Freevo developers have Matrox G400 which > therefore is well supported but more expensive than my card at least > where I live. The G400 is great, I would look into the PVR350 if I was in the market today, since it does provide hardware decoding of MPEG2, TV Output and as far as I know, a complete framebuffer, unlike the DXR3 which involves encoding the Freevo interface into mpeg. > >DVD Drive, Anything will do. > >RS232 remote, > > You can either build your own receiver for most standard remotes or buy > a TV Card with one included. It should be supported by LIRC. See > http://freevo.sourceforge.net/hardware.html which also contains bits of > hints about the other parts. The IRMAN is dead simple to get going if you're not comfortable with electronics. > >and anything else I'll need? > Soundcard? Or maybe your on-board is sufficient? If you're playing DVDs, you need to get some sort of card with optical out... if your onboard has it, make sure it's supported. > >Also, will 256MB be enough memory? > > I think so, I have an old K6-2 350 Mhz with 192 MB :-( but it's OK for > audio and photos and the Freevo menu's work OK (I have neither DVD nor > TV tuner working yet) I used Freevo on a Celeron 400 with 256mb of RAM and it was pretty good, including TV encoding. I've moved to a faster machine, but it's fine to work with any amount of RAM, though Python will probably gain some speed from more. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
