[mythtv-users] Comments sought on combined FE/BE box spec

[Greg Hermsen]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Michael PARKER <michael.parker at st.com>wrote:

> All,
>
> Firstly, thanks for all your feedback. Much appreciated.
>
> In light of the feedback, I'm going to go with the current, single-disk
> spec., keep an eye on SSD
> prices and look at splitting out the OS/DB and video at a later date.
> Cheap, small capacity HDDs
> would add noise and power and I'm averse to paying £100+ for a 64GB SSD
> right now.
>
> I'm going with the Blu-ray player in the hope that Linux support will
> improve. If not, I'll swap it
> with the DVD burner I've currently got in my Windoze desktop.
>
> Graphics performance should be adequate for HD playback (the board has the
> 8300 chipset rather than
> the 8200) but, again, I'll feel my way. I always have the option of adding
> a PCIe card at a later
> date (providing it fits beside the PCI cards and doesn't add too much
> noise.....)
>
> The CPU is overkill - I acknowledge that. But I always buy CPUs that are
> found wanting as time goes
> by. The 605e is as much performance as you can currently get in 45W and
> that performance will be
> there if I decide to do more stuff on the HTPC than I currently envisage.
>
> I'll doubtless be back with problems encountered during the build but, for
> the time being, I'm
> pretty confident that any glaring problems have been ironed out.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Mike
>
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Regarding wireless, it was mentioned that not all chipsets "just work".  I
think that is becoming less of an issue.  Wireless works well for Schedules
Direct listing downloads.  It also works well for watching standard def.
I've tried HD and it did not work well for me.

If you want to use wireless and you want to allow for more flexibility down
the road, I'd recommend going the route I did.  I have an old Linksys WRT54G
router that I flashed with DD-WRT firmware.  After doing so, I configured as
a bridge.  Then you can just plug your MythBox into the bridge and it thinks
it is using a wireless connection.  The flexibility this gives you is that
you could also use the bridge for xbox, playstation, etc.

The DD-WRT web site shows a database of supported (Linksys and other)
routers.

    http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/support/router-database

Good luck.
Greg
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