On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:05, Charles Howse wrote: > -----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? > Absolutely! > > > 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. Nope... while your out flexing the magic plastic, grab (Ok I know I'll hear complaints for this) an ATI Radeon 9200 (With 128Mb of memory) they're around $99 bucks... The binary drivers from ATI work very well. nVidia also has great video cards, but I can't recommend any, I've never used any of them. > > > 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? > uncomment stable and good > 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? ok you will have to be able to cut and paste (Better to understand, but...) some config files, but the fedora how-to walks you through each config, and what to change. > > Are you running both the front-end and back-end on your main workstation? I have them both running on the same machine. Mind you I have a dedicated machine for this. > > > > > Check out the mythtv mailing list as well, it's pretty active. > > Right, I suppose that's a must for a PVR noob. :-) Lots of good info there. For parts... check out www.newegg.com (if you buy the ATI there... There are a few cards that use the ATI chipset, but are much cheaper... I don't know if they'd work, but for about half the price it may be worth it. I bought the gigabyte radeon card for half what I paid for the ATI card.)
