[mythtv-users] Building a system from scratch

[Jeff Clowser]

I was thinking the main/backend system would record all content, plus 
with the pvr-350, it would act as a front end also (i.e. the main box is 
an all in one), then the others would be additional fronts ends for 
viewing stuff in other rooms (i.e. not expecting the pvr-350 to do the 
decoding for the remote boxes - sorry for the confusion...)

 - Jeff

Sam Byrne wrote:

>I don't know too much about this stuff, but is it possible to use the
>front-ends as you're suggesting?  I suppose it would work if the pvr 350
>were doing decoding work, but I would think you'd need to have that
>pvr350 in your front end system and not in your back end.
>
>Am I making sense?
>Sam
>On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 10:46, Jeff Clowser wrote:
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>>Harry Orenstein wrote:
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>>>I have the ASUS A7V8X-X mobo and have never had any of the VIA
>>>chipset problems that have been described on this list.  From what I
>>>can tell, 512MB DDR is the best choice for memory.
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>>I'm narrowing down my "ideal" mythtv system... 
>>
>>I was looking around for reasonably priced boards, and was looking at 
>>the ABIT KV7, with 1 PVR-350 and multiple PVR-250's.  This board has 
>>onboard 10/100 lan, "6-channel AC 97" sound (not sure if this is 
>>supported in Linux, but I have a couple sound blaster cards laying 
>>around that I can use if this doesn't work), Ultra DMA 133 (to use for 
>>an OS hard disk, and maybe a dvd burner), and SATA (for hard disks to 
>>store video - figure this is the best thing to handle the I/O 
>>requirements of writing multiple sources at a time with multiple PVR 
>>inputs).  This board goes for about $80 on newegg.
>>
>>This board has a Via chipset (VIA KT600 + VT8237).  I'm a bit new to 
>>this list, so haven't seen the posts referred to above about Via Chipset 
>>problems - Does anyone know if this board/chipset has any problems with 
>>MythTV (or underlying dependencies?)
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>>I have an extra 1.8 Ghz AMD proc to use for this - sounds like htis may 
>>be overkill, but since I already have it...
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>>My plan is to later get Via EPIA M motherboards, and build a couple 
>>minimyth diskless front ends.  The above system would then be used on a 
>>primary tv, plus for the tftp (and maybe dhcp) server for these remote 
>>boxes - figure with all the hardware encoding/decoding, plus high speed 
>>I/O on the SATA drives, the 1.8ghz proc should be enough.
>>
>>Does this sound reasonable?
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>>Next problem will be to find a quiet enough case/fans/etc to put the 
>>main box in :)
>>
>> - Jeff
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