You'll need a third card for 3 streams. Stay away from PCI express for now. Stay with a Motherboard with nForce2 or nForce3. nForce4 is out, but I don't know how much of it is supported.
Possibly streams with two cards: Recording 2 programs at once, while watching a recorded program. Recording 1 program, while watching Live TV. MythTV is great! I recommend looking into KnoppMyth at http://mysettopbox.tv This makes setting up MythTV easier. You can do raid 1, but you may want to look into LVM instead. Just a thought! I recently set up a KnoppMyth box using 1 GB 3200 RAM, 1 PVR350 Card, 1 250 PATA HDD, 1 300 PATA HDD, Athlon 64 CPU, a DFI LanParty NF3 UT250gb Motherboard with NIC and 7.1 audio incorporated on it using nForce3 chipsets. The 2 HDD are in using LVM to create one 550GB HDD (approximately). I am using KnoppMyth R5A16. It works great. I haven't had time to configure the 7.1 out of the SPDIF connector yet, but several people on the mysettopbox.tv website have configured it. It is a time thing for me! I do have it setup as a Samba server for my Windows XP PC's at home, serving music and recorded content. Good luck! Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Sechan Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: MythTV I'm finally building my myth tv box, due to getting some money (honest this time! I even bought the hard drives and combo drive already!). My goals for this box are large- I want it to be able to do at least 3 simultaneous streams (2 recordings and 1 live TV), and to be usable as a build box (when not doing quite as much work) and home server. I also want to not have to upgrade this thing for a few years. Can anyone with any experience look over my planned specs and tell me whats missing/needed/overkill? In order of importance: RAM- 2 or 4 GB (deciding) DDR3200, dual channel motherboard Processor- Athlon 64 dual core 3800 (I think the dual core is important, it will allow myth to use 1 core and me to use 1 core). Hard drives- 2 250GB SATA300 7200 rpm 16 MB cache drives in Raid-1 configuration (I don't want to be losing all my shows. I believe in permanent time shifts :) PVR cards- 1 happengauge 350 card (so I have the fm tuner), 1 250. Do I need a 3rd to get the 3rd stream, or can the processor handle it alone? video card- low end nvidia card, whatever's cheap. This is not a gaming pc, after all. I'll use the TV out of the 350 for the tv, and the video card as a second display for actual work. And yes, I know getting X to do that is probably a major nightmare. I also know that X can probably do it, its obscure configuration option #5439852. Help appreciated. sound- onboard, or whatever's cheap if onboard has issues with Linux ethernet- on board My main worry is PVR cards- if I need 3 for 3 streams, I need to get a PCI motherboard instead of a pci express, which means an older chipset. Any guidance for me? Gabe -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
