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I am reading up on creating my own MythTV setup
in our apartment and one of the things I am currently debating is using 2
Hauppauge PVR-150s or 1 Hauppauge PVR-500 because of its dual tuners/encoders.
I noticed that in the case of the PVR-150 there is both a “vanilla”
version and an “MCE” (for Windows XP Media Center Edition).
However, I can only find the PVR-500 in the MCE flavor. I will be receiving one
signal from digital cable using an IR blaster to control the cable box and the
other signal from the basic cable. I do PLAN on moving both to digital cable,
so if the PVR-500 does not support dual IR blasters, that would break its
contention in my decision. My questions are as follows: Is the Hauppauge PVR-500 only offered as the “PVR-500MCE”? How is the support in Linux for the PVR-500 (e.g. is it any
more difficult running two tuners/encoders on the PVR-500 versus 2 separate
PVR-150s)? What is your general experience / recommendation on the
single PVR-500 versus dual PVR-150 decision? Thanks for any and all help/feedback. - Zach Here is some background on what type of hardware/software
environment I am currently looking at: ------------------------------------- Backend: ------------------------------------- Linux Distro: Gentoo Linux Processor: AMD
Athlon64 3000+ ( Mobo:
Asus A8N-E (w/ Nforce4 Ultra chipset, PCI-E, and SATAII) RAM:
2x 512MB DDR 400 PC-3200 CAS 2.5 Storage:
2x 40GB 7200 RPM 2MB cache ATA133 in RAID 1 (system)
3x 250GB 7200 RPM 16MB cache SATA in software RAID 5 (data, video) Network:
100Mbit switched LAN Tuners:
2 x Hauppauge PVR-150 or 1 x Hauppauge PVR-500 Signal:
For starters, 1 digital cable + 1 basic cable signal. Moving to dual digital
cable signal. ------------------------------------- Frontend(s): ------------------------------------- TBD |
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