I have an M9000 which I am in the process of perfecting. Comments interspersed below.
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:41 +1000, Peter Schachte wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen much discussion of getting MythTV running on an Epia M 10000 > machine, so I know lots of myth users have one. What I haven't seen > is how they feel about it. I'm choosing a hardware setup to run myth > right now, and would appreciate comments on the Epia M. In > particular: > > The machine, as I conceive it now, would be an Epia M 10000 with 2 PCI > DVI-T cards on an active PCI riser, You'll need to pick your case to fit two cards in. I have a sereniti 2000 which has a one pci riser (which houses a hauppauge pvr-150) > 250 GB Seagate HDD, DVD burner, > 512 MB RAM. I'll use the on-board S-video and S/P DIF outputs. Not > sure about the case yet; I like the Silverstone LC-11M, with 2 line > display and IR remote, but I'm not sure it'll fit. > > 1. How is the S-video out quality? I plan to plug into a decent > standard def wide-screen TV (Loewe Xelos); how much quality > will I lose relative to using the TV's component input? I use the s-xideo out, but convert it to composite (no s-video inputs on my crap tv's, can't use the composite out as it is set to spdif ). The tv output is ok at best, but I don't think I have everything set right yet. > > 2. How good is the S/P DIF sound when run into a reasonably good > stereo system (Yamaha reciever, Klipsch speakers)? > no problem at all, dvd's etc with ac3 sound sound excellent. I have THX certified Logitech 5500 speakers. > 3. I understand the Epia is underpowered for transcoding and > commercial flagging. I'd like to do both of these. How many > minutes of TV could I transcode and commercial flag per hour? > I don't mind letting the machine do this overnight, if I can > handle 3 or 4 hours of recording per day. > I recorded Live 8 and it was commercial flagged by default (since switched off). It finished 4 hours recording at 6.00 am and finished commercial tagging sometime between 10.00 and 11.30 am. I haven't transcoded it. Hope that helps. > Is there any other reasonably low cost, low noise option that people > would recommend in lieu of the Epia? > I think from what i am reading something with a gruntier CPU and an nvidia card with hardware mpeg decoding. > Thanks for any advice you can give. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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