After going through a headache setting up a 150... I'd recomend the better supported 250, especially if you're new to it. I went the fedora core 3 route because things are much easier if you follow Jarod's fedora howto, which does require any compiling.
On 5/24/05, Jason Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Getting better each day 8)...3rd compile this week 8) upto 3.2f I think > now > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MagicITX [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 2:44 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie questions... > > On 5/24/05, Jason Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pvr 150 = replaced 250.... > > > > Pvr 350 = 150 with tv-out > > > > Pvr 500 = 2 x 150s stucktogether. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Bargabus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2005 1:03 PM > > To: MagicITX; Discussion about mythtv > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Newbie questions... > > > > <snip> > > > 1. I've not had trouble with the VIA DMA problem. I seem to recall > > > some talk that it could be an FC3 on VIA problem. Maybe I shouldn't > > > > say that since I can't recall specifics of the conversation. YMMV > > > > > > FC3 as in Fedora? I'm a debian guy, I assume then that would be fine. > > > > > > > 2. You don't need a 350 on the backend. The decoding capability is > > > a frontend thing. > > > > > > I kind of thought that but wanted to check. What then is the > > difference between the 150 and 250? I went to their web page and it > > wasn't very clear. > > > > > > Thank you for your input! > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > > > You are correct. One thing to keep in mind though is the chipset in the > 150 is different than the 250. The 150 needs the ivtv 0.3.x driver > while the 250 can use that or the older 0.2.0 driver. The 0.3.x driver > is newer and may not be as stable as the 0.2.0 driver. > > -- > Tim > www.magicitx.com > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
