David Wallace wrote:
Hello List,
Hi!
I am getting ready to build a mythTV machine from a lot of extra parts I
have around and would like some input on hardware and interfacing into
my current AV system.
I have an Athalon 1700 on an Abit KD7 raid motherboard with 256 mb ram.
For use with a PVR-series card this should be enough...
But comercial flagging and trancoding need much horsepower, so a faster
Prozessor is always nice, if you plan to transcode alot.
BTW: I would build this Box with 512MB RAM. You can never have enough RAM ;)
1) should I consider getting 4 drives the same size and use the hardware
raid in stripping mode?
For Data-Security i would never use Striping or raid0
If you consider buying 4 Drives, i would suggest to use Linux
Software-RAID5 & LVM
2) I have a WinTV PVR 250 working for capture using ivtv 0.4.0. The
hardware browser says it is a "Intermext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder", is this good enough for MythTV?
This should work fine with ivtv 4.0 & Myth. The PVR-Series has the great
advantage, that the videostream coming out of the card is already MPG2,
so your CPU just needs to store it to your HDD(s) without any encoding.
3) The video card is a Matrox Millennium G400 AGP, the one that can use
dual head, had it doing TV out under RedHat 9. Will it work well with
MythTV?
If you get TV-Ot working, you can give it a try. I read somewhere, that
the Matrox Millenium G400 Series has an excellent TV-OUT.
4) Sound. My current AV system has a Sony 5.1 amp with a MD (digital
tape) input and output, like old cassette tape monitior recievers. The
motherboard has a VIA AC97 audio controller with a 5.1 fiber output
which I think can be inputted to the Sony MD input. Is there another
audio card I could add to capture 5.1 into MythTV. My AV source is
DirecTV which provides 5.1 (if available) to the amp.
Don't know about this... Maybe there will be problems with
Audio/Video-Sync if you want to record the video with the PVR and the
Sound as 5.1.
AFAIK, the PVR's cannot record 5.1
Also the PVR's have a 2sec-delay compared to watching the same content
directly on a TV. This is the time needed to do the Hardware-MPG2 encoding.
Maybe someone else could give you more detailed information on this.
I have been reading Jarod Wilson's Fedora 4 FAQ for mythTV which I find
very helpful on the subject, but obviously can't address every hardware
configuration possible, hence this posting. Thanks in advance to any
that can help and make recommendations.
Thanks, David
hth,
Jan
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