MythTV
January 15th, 2006
So I’ve been playing with MythTV recently. I brought a nice looking mini-itx case left over from a stalled robotics project, a 120GB HDD and borrowed a Winfast 2000 tuner card and stuck them together. Lesson learnt: MythTV is a waste of time on anything under 2GHz (my mini-itx was an early EPIA-V 1GHz). You really can’t have fast enough hardware when it comes to stuff like this. I ended up setting up an XP2400+ box as a mythbackend server in the garage and using the mini-itx as just a frontend that connected to the TV in the lounge, but thats a story for another post. I can tell you that it cost a small fortune to get it working reliably and unless you’re serious about it, stick with with your VCR - it might suck, but believe me, it’s cheaper.
December 19th, 2006 at 12:50 am
If you get a hauppauge card that does hardware encoding you can use low end hardware. I don’t know the status of linux drivers but I’m running GBPVR on windows with a 1.5ghz machine and I can record two shows and watch a recorded show with no issues.
December 19th, 2006 at 2:11 am
That’s true. Of course that will mean sourcing a pretty expensive tuner card and from my experience the driver support for a lot of these card leaves a lot to be desired.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:31 am
if you get a hardware card its excellent card, ive got a pvr-500 it makes everything work great