See inline. -- Joe
--- "Zach.Burlingame" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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"? > That appears to be the case. I figure that if Hauppauge was selling the cards in the non-MCE version, they likely would, because lots of people would be interested in it. (On the other hand, it might cut into their sales of PVR-x50 cards too). > > > 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)? > The ivtv driver sees PVR-500 as two PVR-150 cards. I don't know about the radio though, I haven't tried it. > > > What is your general experience / recommendation on > the single PVR-500 > versus dual PVR-150 decision? > I've never used a PVR-150, but I'm very happy with my PVR-500. I use it along with a PVR-250 for a total of three tuners. > > > 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+ (Winchester > Core) > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
