To be honest, I pretty much never use it for live TV. But I remember
testing the pause and rewind capabilities. They worked, but with a
slight (<1 second) lag.

If you plan on doing lots of live TV watching you'll probably benefit
a lot from a faster system, but the capabilities should work on your
machine as a proof of concept, as it were. But then again, if you're
planning on watching lots of live TV, then why build a PVR in the
first place?

If you can't find a card online, you might try the old fashioned way
and call your local Comp USA or Best Buy or whatever. I recall seeing
the cards quite often, at least before Christmas. You'll pay a bit
more in the shop, but there's no waiting.

Good Luck


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:51:39 -0500, Aaron Aguilar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:25:36 -0500, Khanh Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You'll want to remember in your evaluation of MythTV that a 650Mhz
> > machine will really affect your experience.  I'd suggest getting
> > something closer to 1Ghz if possible.  Either way, if you want to watch
> > while that box is recording you'd have to get something that would
> > decode in hardware like the Hauppauge PVR-350.
> >
> > -Khanh
> 
> I know that having a slow machine will affect my experience, but I
> just want to get familiar with it before I drop a couple hundred bucks
> more for hardware.  So the Hauppauge 250 wouldn't work as well as the
> 350 you're saying?
> 
> Dewey,
> Can you pause and rewind live tv on your machine?  I think Khanh is
> trying to say I won't be able to do that with the 250?  I bought an
> nvidia fx5200 for the video out and a soundblaster card for sound.
> When I say the Hauppauge cards are hard to come by...  go to pretty
> much any online merchant and every single one of them have those cards
> backordered :(
> 
> Aaron
> 
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