[mythtv] RedHat 8.0 and hardware questions.

[J Flowers]

Richard,

If you're looking for cheap (and good) parts, I've done quite a bit of 
research. Check out http://www.freeplaytv.org under "Suggested Parts" 
for prices and places to buy them.

The Documentation on the site talks about fan noise and keeping the 
system down to something a tad more silent than today's PC systems.


On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 11:29  AM, Richard Trice wrote:

> Current config.
>
> Asus mb w/ 700mhz Athlon
> 256mb ram
> 13 gb / partition
> 2 west. dig 80gb drives, software raided (hdparam -t /dev/md0 gives
> 60MB/s writes)
> ATI tv wonder ve tuner
> Nvidia gefore 4 mx 64mb
> SB live!
>
> Downloaded and installed version 0.7.  xawtv works fine (except the
> colors are a little washed out and the channels are off by 1).  I think
> I
> read a post about insmoding tuner type to 2.   I will try that.
>
> My main question is, every time I try to watch live tv, it would crash
> on me and tell me I didn't have Xv support  nor the OSDdefault theme.
> I checked the themes dir and indeed it only had blue.   So is it 
> because
>
> my processor isn't fast enough to encode/decode (as per the docs?) or
> am I missing something else?
>
> Also today, I was planning on running down and grabbing a new
> mb/processor/mem
> combo, and I wanted suggestions.  Got about $300 to spend.  I would 
> like
>
> this machine to be as quiet as possible.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Richard Trice
> Systems Analyst
> Alabama Research and Education Network
> (256) 971-7431
> tricer@asc.edu
>
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