Sterling, After much discussion, knashing of teeth, pulling of hair and other things, we decided to go with these two cards for the "pilot" of the event on March 3rd:
1) pcHDTV HD-5500 (www.pchdtv.com) 2) Hauppauge PVR-150 (http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/prods_pvr.html) The HD-5500 is a dual-mode digital and analog card, which works for OTA and cable HDTV, as well as digital cable SDTV and analog OTA or cable TV. The PVR-150 is analog-only, OTA and cable, and can also be fed input from a cable box or satellite box, if need be. Make sure you have the PVR-150 card, as it is rumored that Hauppauge has been putting HVR-1600 cards in PVR-150 boxes. I would really suggest the pcHDTV HD-5500 card, even though it is more expensive. It is designed by people mostly for the Linux market, and they work on the Linux drivers themselves. Finally, it is oriented toward the Digital TV of the future. As to the rest of the system that should be around it, we have been developing quite a wiki site at: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MythTV which goes into lots of information about it to the point where I just thought to myself: o 1 GB or more of memory o Fast CPU (not screaming, but fast) o NVidea card that has hardware assist for decoding o Two or more pcHDTV capture cards (two so you can be recording two programs at once) o Gbit ETHERNET, or at least 100Mbit o Lots of storage (probably be USB for me) o DVD-RW drive to do archiving, installation, data-transfer, etc. If you have Digital cable boxes at home and you have one that has a firewire connection, you may want to have a firewire port also. We also will be using both a Fedora based MythTV and a Knoppix one. maddog _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
