[mythtv-users] pcHDTV 3000 (good experience)
Adam Treat
manyoso at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 11 15:18:34 UTC 2004
On Thursday 11 November 2004 9:54 am, Lane Schwartz wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:58:42 -0500, Adam Treat <manyoso at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Just received my card this morning. It took 3 hours from physical
> > installation of the card to recording an HD program with MythTV ... all
> > fully configured and compiled from straight cvs.
> >
> > The card performs great even without a robust video card. I can watch
> > live tv and pause/fast forward with no blips. I have an old geforce2 mx
> > so this is all in software. My machine is a dual processor so that
> > probably helps though.
> >
> > BTW, the drivers and tools for the card installed and worked flawlessly
> > with my SuSE 9.1 distro. No modifications except a slight change of one
> > line to one Makefile. So, no big headaches for non-redhat anymore.
> >
> > Finally, a big hearty THANK YOU to the mythtv developers and the folks at
> > pcHDTV, inc.
>
> What processors and how much RAM do you have?
I have dual Athlon 2200+ MP with 512 RAM. Video card is geforce2 MX from
several years ago. I'm going to pick up a nvidia FX 5200+ in the next days
for some tv out.
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