This one time, at band camp, Kyle wrote: > errrrrr ................ GULP!!!!!!! > > Ok! <he says meekly> > > Thanks. I'll just walk before I go for the Olympics I think.
For the record, if you're recording DVB-t, you really don't need much CPU grunt in either the back-end or front-end. All it's doing is pulling the appropriate stream our of what's coming down the antenna and spooling it off to disk. There's no transcoding or anything involved. If you want to do ad detection on the commercial channels, that might need some CPU power, though in my experience it's the disk thrashing that's more of an issue. In standard definition, MPEG decoder hardware means the CPU can be pretty puny on the front-end. Seriously, spend your money on disks -- which are cheap too (<$300/TB these days). I find with free-to-air only and my viewing habits, about 600 gigs is plenty, and there's still loads of stuff I never get around to. I probably watch at most 6 hours of telly a week though, so perhaps I'm not typical? The beauty of MythTV, though, is that it's all thriller, no filler. No ads either. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
