[mythtv-users] PVR Box Parts, pending approval

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, at 18:19 US/Pacific, Ian Forde wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 18:02, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>> I can't really say for certain. You've already got a TV-Out capable
>> card selected (I presume the Gainward GF4MX has TV-Out, anyhow), and a
>> processor with more than enough juice to decode files, so you don't
>> really need the decoder or TV-Out. Someone with more GF4MX vs. PVR-350
>> TV-Out experience would have to comment on relative picture quality of
>> the two. I believe once you have the 350 TV-Out set up, you can
>> completely do away with the other card, but you'll still need 
>> something
>> other than the 350 for the initial install (unless you're REALLY good
>> and crafty w/driver disks at install time).
>
> Well, there is a way to tell anaconda to use the serial port for 
> console
> during the RH install... don't remember offhand though.

Ah yes... You are absolutely correct... Forgot about that one... I 
don't recall how offhand either... ;p

>>> -Should I consider gentoo instead of rh9?
>>
>> Only if you really like to make your life (and your PVR) way more
>> complicated than necessary. Outside of personal preference, I don't
>> really see any reason to go with Gentoo over RHL9, but one could argue
>> that I'm heavily biased toward Red Hat, for numerous reasons. I'm
>> probably starting a religious war with that statement... ;p
>
> Having said all of that, I'm currently install Windows 2000 (blech!) on
> a spare drive in my myth box[1] so that I can run PowerStrip to try to
> get a good modeline for my VGA->Component box.  The things I do for 
> good
> picture quality, I tell you...

Yeah, I did that too, only w/WinXP. :(

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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