On 26/09/05, Ben Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to this list but have thinking about building a MythTV box of a year > or so. I've now started ordering bits (well a antec overture II case) and > am planning on using a Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t freeview PCI card and > Ubuntu/512MB memory. As you can probably imagine, I have a few questions. > > Firstly what processor should I get. I had a AMD Sempron 3000+ to 3400+ in > mind. What I was hoping on being able to do is allow the TV card to do the > recording and have enough oomth in the CPU to be able to decode/play at the > same time as recording or do I need two TV cards to do this.
A single TV card will allow you to record while watching the programme being recorded (with rewind, pause etc) or to watch any previously made recording. What you won't be able to do is watch any other live channel (because the tuner card will be locked to the channel being recorded). As far as CPU oomph goes. I have two Nova-t PCI cards in my box and am able to record two channels while also watching, and I'm using an AMD XP1400 CPU (1GHz Clock) so I don't think you'd have any problems with any of today's CPUs. > Being able to play and record at the same time is very important to me. How > do I wire > things up to record/play at the same time. If I had two cards would I have > one wired to record an the other to play and do they have to be the same > cards? The NOVA-t PCI card writes the incoming mpeg stream to a file on your hard disk. Multiple cards allow you to stream several channels to disk simultaneously (1 per card) Watching the programme requires a graphics card with TV out capability and a sound card connected to amp/speakers. MythTV playback simply streams one of the files on disk to the sound/video out. > > Is the 'Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-t PCI card' a good choice or are there other > freeview cards I should consider (freeview is the relatively new free to > view TV service here in the UK). I am assuming here that I should go for a > internal PCI card because I am not sure about compatibility with external > USB cards although having a external card is better from the point of you of > interference. I've never used a USB card, but the PCI cards were certainly easy to setup. All I had to do was. modprobe dvb-cx88 Everything else could be done from with Myth Good Luck _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
