I just finished building a MythTV box a couple of months ago. I'm now using it full time. I'm very happ with it and rarely switch over to my TiVo.
I'm using a 2600 Barton processor(overkill) and 512MB RAM. I bought a Samsung SP160N HD. The Samsung drives are QUIET. I mean I thought the drive was DOA when I installed it because I couldn't even hear it spin up. The motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-VM/400. I'm using it's built-in Geforce4 w/tv-out and it's built-in sound. I'm also using a Hauppauge PVR-250 as a tuner. I went with FC3 as a base and used the ATRPMS repostitory for the myth installation. There's a great how-to for installing MythTV on FC. As long as you read and follow it carefully, you'll have MythTV up and running in no time. As for your question about the PVR-250 vs 350. The 350 has it's own tv-out capabilities. This includes a built-in mpeg decode. Both cards have encoders. The theory is that with a 350, the card does both the encoding and decoding and your cpu doesn't have to get involved. From what I've read, the 350's tv-out can be a pain to configure. On the myth-users list, I see a lot of people that have 350s, but don't use it's output capabilities. Good Luck, Ken On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:50:02 -0500, Myrhillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently gotten interested in building a mythtv box. > I checked my trilug messages and found there was a meeting in December > which featured mythtv. > Drats, I've missed my opportunity. > > Does anyone know if the presentation is available online somewhere? > I'd like to discuss what people have for hardware too. > > Here is the basic machine I'm considering. > > I'm considering recycling an athlon duron 800 with 512 mb ram. > I'm thinking gentoo or a debian based distro like ubuntu for the OS. > The machine by itself would be too slow so, I'm going to buy a tv card, > probably a hauppage (sp?) wintv 250 or 350. > Has anyone seen any benefit of the 350 over the 250 in practice? > Any other tv tuners people have been impressed with to use for this > purpose? > I'll be adding a larger hard drive, probably 200gb range. > A wireless nic so I can save some of the shows I want to keep to a > larger file server and to grab the xmltv feed. > This will also make it simple to keep downstairs with the stereo tv etc.. > > Doug Taggart > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- --------------------------------------------- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
