Ed, As a longtime HTPC user I must advise against MythTV. I have used it between versions 0.14 and 0.18 and have always had various problems with stability, sound being out of sync, processes going into zombie states, etc.
I recommend the Hauppage PVR-150 product. You most probably don't need the built in TV-encoding feature of the PVR-350 if your video card will have suitable TV-out... not only that but I don't think that the PVR-350 supports overlay at all so all you would see is the video...not the guides or anything. I can recommend any Geforce2MX or greater (with SVideo out) for video card purposes. Andrew Richards Jr, Edward C. wrote: >Greetings all, > >One of my personal projects for some time has been to build a Home Theatre PC >based on Linux. The first step was to get MythTV up and running. I have >accomplished that on my regular desktop machine and am overall quite impressed >with the capability and the "fit and finish" of this suite of applications. My >next step is to build up a hardware platform that will be a dedicated machine >for the Home Theatre. The hardware pieces that I need are a DVD-RW, TV cards, >a sound card and a video card. I have a mother board, case, power supply, >Athlon XP 2100+, memory, 250 gig hard drive, and NIC. From having done some >research, it seems that the most highly reguarded TV cards for use with MythTV >are the Hauppauge PVR-350 ( >http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html ) and the HD-3000 ( >http://www.pchdtv.com/ ). Since MythTV supports PNP and dual simultaneous >recording, I am planning on getting two TV cards and am considering either two >HD-3000's or one of each. I would be i! > nterested in any experience and/or opinions that listers may have with regard > to these pieces as well as thoughts and recommendations for the other items. > I think that this will eventually become a workshop topic for the > Newbies/CCCC Linux SIG group. > >Ed > > > > >This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and >privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of >included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you >are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on information >sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not or should not >be one of the named recipients, please notify sender accordingly by reply >email and delete all copies of this message prior to forwarding, copying or >otherwise reproducing this message or attachments thereto. For information >regarding the export control status of items discussed in this document, >please refer to the project control list. Thank you. > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >General at brlug.net >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
