Nick Rout wrote:
This experiment has been very helpful in my understanding just what type
of hardware I need for a standalone myth box. Just thought I'd relate
my experiences here in case it was of interest to anyone else,
especially after all the great help I have received of late. Note: no
glitches were apparent during the short test. I am convinced now at
least that this cheap DVB card is a great choice for use with MythTV.
When I get a better box, I might put a couple of them in it.
As I understand it DVB is transmitted in mpeg2 format already,
Yes.
so there is no need to do an encoding. I doubt your setup would have acceptable
performance with a framegabber.
I think you're right. DVB cards make it very easy for the system to
cope. When my larger system (mandriva, 2.2GHz cpu) is recording in the
background, I never notice it while I'm doing all sorts of things like
email, web browsing etc.
Today I even recorded some audio from a cassette via the line in while
it recorded an afternoon TV show. This wasn't intentional, I just forgot
that mythbackend was running. (and yes I can hear people saying that's
why a separate myth machine is a good idea - I agree now too :-))
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