Jeff wroteL > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:27:58 -0800, Kenneth Hong > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have been researching MythTV setups and have come up with the > > following > > hardware configuration.
> <snip> > > > 2 x Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 > > Hi, I'm new to mythtv, so take this comment with a grain of salt... :) > > If your backend is a dedicated backend (ie. no frontend), > then I think you're wasting money on the pvr-350's. The > primary advantage that the pvr-350 has over the pvr-250 is > that the 350 supported hardware decoding and the pvr-250 does not. > > (Since theoretically, I could be streaming video to two front-ends, > > does it help to have two -350's?) > > The pvr-x50 cards don't stream the data. They encode (record) > the video and output mpeg2 format. If I were setting up a > dedicated backend, I'd create a large data store for the > recordings and share that data store using NFS or samba, > depending on which you prefer. The frontend's would then > mount the NFS export or samba share and access the recorded > files over the network. The PVR-350 is useless on a backend unless you want to watch video from the backend at anypoint. As Jeff said, for a dedicated backend I'd go with something like one of the following Twin Nova-T's (or similar DVB-T) Single PVR-500 Twin PVR-250 Twin PVR-150 FWIW I have a combined frontend/backend with one Nova-T and one PVR-350, TV and X both out of the PVR-350, If I was to build dedicated backend I would probably buy another Nova-T and move the other Nova-T into it aswell. > Also, you may want to look into ivtv support of the pvr-150. > It's a less expensive version of the pvr-250 and I seem to > recall people starting to report success with the pvr-150 > using ivtv, but the pvr-250 is certainly more stable at this > point in time. You might even want to go for the pvr-500 as that seems to be the same as the pvr-150 but with dual tuners (although I would presume it would be more expensive than a pvr-150, probably cheaper than two of them!), the driver for it (and the pvr-150) is at or near bleeding edge though and I not having one I don't know how useable it is atm. It also depends on how good you are with linux, the PVR-250 (and the non-X of the pvr-350) is pretty easy, X out is a little tricky on the PVR-350 and newer cards take more care and newer drivers (older cards may even have the drivers included in the distro) Oh and go for as much disk space as you can afford, it vanishes *really* quickly! HTH Druid
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