[mythtv-users] How hard is it to build an HD MythTV?
Steven Adeff
adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 15:13:59 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 8:45 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07:40AM -0700, allene222 wrote:
> >
> > I am getting ready to buy a new computer to do this but have a question
> > before I spend the big bucks. How much difficulty am I going to have
> > getting this thing running right? I don't want to buy everything and find I
> > can't get it to work.
> >
> > I know, it depends. Background: I have put together a web and email server
> > and have maintained it for maybe 10 years. Problem is it is so stable that
> > I forget everything by the time it comes to change anything as I don't use
> > Linux otherwise. For example, changing to Fedora 5 from Red-Hat 7 was a
> > huge pain. I have done a fair amount of C programming, so that isn't an
> > issue. I have also programmed in php and have limited exposure to MySQL.
> > (I coded www.paloaltophoto.com in a text editor for example).
> >
> > But I read the solutions posted in this forum and they go right over my
> > head. Oh, just put this patch in some conf file... Then what, recompile
>
> Some things tend to be complicated and there's no getting around that.
> Although those bits have gotten recently a lot easier (lirc & ivtv). However,
> some combinations of hardware are just more trouble just as certain hardware
> is always more trouble on Linux (like ATI video or wifi).
>
> [deletia]
>
> If you pay attention long enough it's easy to hear what works.
>
> In my own experience, using an HD homerun has been much easier
> than dealing with a cheap QAM card (air2pc). You can even get them
> retail at Microcenter now.
and you don't have to worry about a motherboard with a lot of PCI
slots. of course if you have digital cable and a "friendly" cable
company, you can use firewire from the cablebox and get more than just
the OTA stations.
> As far as display goes, I have had very good experiences with
> the DVI ports on my mac minis. They support both svideo and HDMI
> cheaply and fairly easily. So I would tend to recommend nvidia or
> intel vidcards with dvi ports at this point.
>
> I've found display profiles in 0.21 a bit of a chore though.
> I've yet to find satisfactory results with HD using the internal
> player. CPU usage is about 3x what is is in xine.
probably your choice in deinterlacer. xine should not be significantly
faster than the internal player.
--
Steve
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