Hello - long time lurker here and first time questions. I've been following the mailing list for months and doing plenty of reading and research as I'm about to put together my first Myth box. While I'm a professional programmer and have lots of unix experience, I'm trying to make this as simple/painless as possible because I'm *not* looking for another project - just something I can watch TV with :) A setup with minimum configuration and ongoing maintenance is my goal. Thats why I'm waiting for the pending v0.17 release and the accompanying KnoppMyth distribution before I get started to save some pain.
At least for the start it is going to be a combined frontend/backend system that will recieve DVB-T (both SD and HDTV). I'm leaning towards a Nova-T. To start, only a single tuner card. Anyway - on to the questions: If I'm using a TV that has VGA/DVI in, is it absolutely necessary to have a high(er) performance video card since I won't need the TVOUT? (e.g. the FX5200 seems popular). A lot of motherboards will have some Intel bare bones video built in. Going VGA out -> my TV VGA would be the easiest and cheapest option. Especially after hearing some quality complaints about the nVidia cards SVideo output. Is a card that can do XvMC really needed for HD if you have something like a P4-3.0ghz system? I'm thinking required bus bandwidth (especially for viewing a recorded show while capturing one or more simultaneiously). Also if the output needs to be scaled from what is received to what gets pushed to the monitor? (say i wanted to capture in HD, but view in SD for some crazy reason). Because this is a standalone system, I don't care if the CPU is running at 60% to get the job done. Thanks for the help - looking forward to get myself finally up and running! j
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