[mythtv-users] Urgent Questions

[Nick Breau]

Great thanks, I think I'll go with this setup using RH9 except go with the
PVR250 instead of PVR350 (save me almost 150$cdn)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Torsten Schenkel" <torsten.schenkel at web.de>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Urgent Questions


> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 15:40, Nick Breau wrote:
> > I think what I'll do is use my Ahtlon 2600 as a single box MythTV setup
(as
> > long as I will still be able to use tihs occasionally as a standard
Linux
> > box for running other apps using the TV instead of monitor)
>
> Well, if this is occasional use, as in "don't need absolute speed", I'd
> set up the P2 as an X-Terminal. This would only need a basic Linux
> installation with XFree and connect to the xdm/gdm/kdm on the Athlon.
> The Windowmanager and Applications will run on the Athlon and the
> display will be on the P2. This won't work with multimedia content, as
> playing the video with mplayer on the X-Terminal. But it will be better
> working than on TV. I had some 486DX2-66 running in the lab in that way,
> which made them usable again. A graphics card capable of a 1024
> resolution is all that's needed on the terminal side.
>
> > What will I need to add to the following, nothing except for a Tv
capture
> > card ?  Have people been able to successfully implement wireless network
or
> > a powerline network into RH9 ?
> >
> >
> > CPU                        AMD 2600+ Athlon
> >
> > Motherboard        ASUS A7V8X-X K7 (Sound & Lan)
>
> Remember to disable local APIC in the kernel, with RH-kernels that's
> already done. The NForce2 chipset is very unstable with APIC.
>
> > Memory                 512MB DDR400
>
> Fine.
>
> > Hard Drive             Western Digital 80GB 7200 (8mb cache)
>
> If you have it already, OK, if not, go for 160GB 5400rpm.
>
> > CD-ROM               LG 16x DVD-ROM
>
> > CD-RW                  MSI 52x/24x/52x
> >
> > LAN                       3COM (3CSM100B)
> >
> > Video Card            Asus - V9180TD Graphics card - GeForce4 MX 440 -
64MB
> > DDR - AGP 8x - DVI - Dual VGA - TV-out
>
> > Will add PVR350 capture card
>
> Try the TV out of this baby and you don't want to use anything else. You
> can't use it for anything beyond mpeg1 and mpeg2 at the moment, but I
> guess YUV playback will come, once the drive has grown stable and then
> there will be output for mplayer/xine eventually.
>
> Until then you can set up a dual headed X and display DVD/DivX on the
> second (GForce) Tv-out. A DD-Amp with two seperate Video inputs comes in
> handy in that case.
>
> Torsten
> --
> Config files for pvr350 tv-out and framebuffer:
> http://www-isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de/~hi93/ivtv-pvr-350-conf.tgz
>
>


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