On Tuesday 10 January 2006 15:13, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Jonathan Oexner wrote: > > Sorry to semi-hijack, but I'm in a kinda similar situation. I've got > > an Athlon XP 1800+ box with 3/4 gig of memory and a 4x AGP slot. > > Right now I'm just using it as a backend to capture SD via a PVR-250 > > card. I'm using an XBox as a remote frontend, via a component video > > adapter hooked up to my HD TV. Works like a charm, couldn't be > > happier, but... > > > > At the end of the month I'll be getting a DTC-62xx (I think) from RCN > > here in Boston. I'd like to capture via the Firewire port and watch > > it on my TV, but I understand that the XBox probably doesn't have the > > horsepower to decode and display a 1080i signal. Is there a video > > card with component video outputs that I can drop into the 4x AGP slot > > on my mobo that will be able to render a 1080i video stream? > > > > I've heard people mention that some Nvidia 6200-based cards come with > > a component-out dongle and they work well for HD video, but all the > > cards I've seen say AGP 8x (or PCI-e). Would an AGP 8x Nvidia 6200 > > card even work in a 4x AGP slot, or would the video kinda suck if the > > card stepped itself down to AGP 4x? > > The 1800+ will most likely be a problem (although you might be able to > make it work with XvMC, it will be so close to the edge it will probably > still be annoying), so you might want to just create a new dedicated > frontend. That would allow you to get a processor that will be able to > decode the video as well as a MB with an AGP 8X (or PCI-E) slot. > Unfortunately, that will be more expensive than just dropping a video > card in the existing backend... > > Mike
Another option is, if you only use mpeg2 is to buy a Roku and install MythRoku on it as a front end. All the firewire transfers from the cablebox will be in mpeg2, so original recordings won't be a problem, its any transcodes, etc you might have. The Roku can be had for ~$300. You might also want to get a couple DCT's from RCN, from what I understand, RCN in Boston doesn't enable 5C. -- Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
