[mythtv-users] Personal Choices
Myth Man
mythtv at pln.cc
Sun Dec 14 06:45:59 EST 2003
Hello Jarod,
Thanx for the input, Jarod.
Looking at the hardware (tuners) themselves. What would you
recommend? Both my TVs are HD ready, so I want to get HD if possible.
I am assuming that the tuners is all I need for the backend.
Yea, I know what happens when ya make an assumption. Ya make
an ass out of u and umption. :)
I read the hardware guides, but was a tad cornfused about what
was for the front end or the back end.
As I said earlier, I plan on using 2 XBOXs on my LAN as the front ends
for the TVS in question.
Thanx again.
Sunday, December 14, 2003, 6:28:53 AM, you wrote:
JCW> On Dec 14, 2003, at 03:04, Myth Man wrote:
>> Is the choice of running RH9 or Debian for the Myth Setup meerly a
>> personal choice?
JCW> For the most part, yes.
>> Or are there advantages and/or disadvantages to
>> one or the other, as far as operation, availability and support.
JCW> Linux is Linux is Linux. Sort of. Some distros have handy pre-compiled
JCW> packages for everything, some don't. There are some cases where drivers
JCW> are only available for one platform or another, but generally, whatever
JCW> you can do on one, you can do on another (at least with respect to
JCW> MythTV). I'm rather partial to Red Hat/Fedora myself. Long story short,
JCW> if you have a distribution you really like and you're comfortable with,
JCW> try to use that one.
>> I am building a P4 machine with a 240 GIG Raid Drive and 1 GIG of
>> RAM. Is this beefy enough to run as a backend with 3 tuners?
JCW> Plenty of beef, and then some. My Athlon XP 2600 w/512MB of RAM and a
JCW> single 250GB drive can handle 3 tuners just fine.
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Best regards,
Myth mailto:mythtv at pln.cc
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