I know that having a slow machine will affect my experience, but I
just want to get familiar with it before I drop a couple hundred bucks
more for hardware. So the Hauppauge 250 wouldn't work as well as the
350 you're saying?
As long as you understand that, I think it's a great place to
start.
To be honest, I pretty much never use it for live TV. But I remember
testing the pause and rewind capabilities. They worked, but with a
slight (1 second) lag.
If you plan on doing lots of live TV watching you'll probably benefit
a lot from a faster system, but the capabilities should work on your
I'm gonna try to use my old 650mhz machine to run MythTV. (I will
probably buy a better machine if I'm happy with MythTV.) Anyways, the
only thing I need is a video capture card. I understand that I need
one that does MPEG encoding so my CPU doesn't choke, but do I need a
card that decodes as
the Hauppauge PVR-350.
-Khanh
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Subject: [mythtv-users] myth on an old machine(which video capture card)
I'm gonna try to use
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 18:25:36 -0500, Khanh Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'll want to remember in your evaluation of MythTV that a 650Mhz
machine will really affect your experience. I'd suggest getting
something closer to 1Ghz if possible. Either way, if you want to watch
while that box is
