-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 April 2004 09:23 am, Michael Gargiullo wrote: > > Prefer not to spend over $50 US on TV card. > > Can't afford any extra hardware. > > a $50 tuner card... The best I've seen that works universally well is > the win250-pvr card from Haugpauge just over $100. Yes, it looks like I'll have to exceed my budget by quite a bit. Circuit City has the HAU 980 you mention for $149.99 + tax. $165 after tax here in Jackson. :-( It seems like a card that does the encoding/decoding onboard is the way to go, rather than letting the CPU do it, eh? > > Is my hardware good enough for what I want to do? > > Your hardware should work ok. What video card do you have? Excellent! That's reassuring. :-) I have a ATI Mach64 3D Rage iiC video card. 8 MB PCI. Will that be OK? It will play .mpg files full-screen, but they're too jittery, so I watch them in a window. > It's as easy as installing ATrpms rpm and typing yum install mythsuite Ummm....ATrpms rpm? I already have atrpms-stable, good, testing and bleeding in my /etc/yum.conf, although they're commented out. Which should I uncomment? Sounds too good to be true. Are you saying it worked perfectiy out of the box? You didn't have to install any drivers or do any mind-boggling configuration? Are you running both the front-end and back-end on your main workstation? > > Check out the mythtv mailing list as well, it's pretty active. Right, I suppose that's a must for a PVR noob. :-) - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAg+rB/S+VsB9RMKgRAkvBAJ9mbI0cY8DR3jw7TFl9ATN5y9s5CgCfXZqg jQ0g7Two3NbZHMOdahH6PhA= =1ABM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
