This is fairly off topic, please let me know if I should take it elsewhere.
I'm setting up a mythtv system in my basement. I've got a server machine running 24/7 in a back room, about a 30' cable run distant from my TV/stereo. I'd like to be able to use that box as both front and backend, if at all possible.
I've got an old NVidia card (an Asus branded GForce2-MX400), and I've tried running the composite out from that card to the TV over a 30' coax cable with F-RCA converters on both ends -- under the assumption that the coax (RG6) cable would be better shielded than a standard RCA cable -- is this true? The resulting signal on the TV is very dirty, with distortion in the middle of the screen and bands that cycle top to bottom.
Is there anything I can do (better cable, a signal amp, something else?) to get video from the server to the TV cleanly? Or am I stuck with needing a second computer for the frontend in the TV room?
If and when I solve the dirty video problem, audio will be the next challenge. My plan is to run another 30' RG6 cable with RCA connectors from the coax digital out on the computer (the on-board AC97 audio) to my tuner. Will I likely have problems with the distance there as well?
If there's no way to solve the distance problems, are there any good appliance-type machines that can run the frontend these days? The Hauppauge MediaMVP looks fantastic, but I understand it doesn't run a full frontend yet.
Thanks, - Marc _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
