At 09:11 AM 12/2/2005, you 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
Cool, Ed. ON the hardware, I recommend AGAINST the Hauppauge 350. Go with the 250 or even the 150. On the SageTV boards, folks have had problems getting two 350's in the same machine to play together nicely. I have three 250's in my HTPC (SageTV-based). You can see it at www.terryshometheater.com/htpc/ -- Terry Stockdale -- Baton Rouge, LA My tips site and free newsletter: http://www.TerrysComputerTips.com My blogs: http://www.TheNextWindow.com and http://blog.TerrysComputerTips.com
