Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:50, Chris Petersen wrote:
One question I have is I would like to utilize a PVR-350 in the pundit
system for output to the TV and as another tuner for recording. I have
been very pleased with the PVR-350 in the existing system. I read that
this will be a tight fit but appears that it should be workable. Is
there any other gotchas with setting a pundit up (or pundit-r) this
way? Since I plan on using the PVR-350 for output the onboard video
won't be used much beyond the initial install.
Why would you want to do that? The video-out on the pundit is great,
and even a mediocre celeron (if you're not spending the $$ for a full
p4) can handle displaying fullscreen mpeg2 (heck, my 2.4G p4 will play
720p at 800x600). Mind you, this is the SiS pundit, not the pundit-R
(or S). From what I understand, setting up the video out for a 350 is a
PITA, too (and you'll likely lose out on a number of the new openGL ui
changes in forthcoming mythtv versions)
Well the first mythtv box I setup uses a PVR-350 for the output and
works very well for me. :)
It would also give me another encoder channel to use, assuming I
understand correctly that the backend system can use encoders on remote
systems.
However I have started to consider using a epia board setup as a
diskless frontend. Would make it cost effective to setup one on each TV
in the house.
BTW: once the initrd has been modified to send X out the PVR-350 output
can the video card be pulled from the system? Or would that prevent the
system from booting?
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I'm pretty sire that depends on your BIOS. For what
MoBo are you asking? If the MoBo has onboard video, which most do, you
certainly can boot without a video card.
But I've seen some really weird crap before. I've got a system that
won't boot without a PS2 Keyboard plugged in. (Even though I used a
USB keyboard, I also have to keep an old PS2 KB plugged in too.) Isn't
that nuts? Made a great SFF sandbox, but the physical foot quadrupled
when you add in the silly KB requirement.
http://www.pcquest.com/content/weeksreview/100110701.asp
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