Michael Carland
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Michael Carland
Email: Yahoo username mcarland
Personal: I've built a diskless VIA M10k (netboot) in a Travla C158-60W case. I replaced the front panel circuit board with one I build that puts an IR receiver at the HD activity hole, has an RF tranmitter on my ceiling fans frequency, and connects to the internal serial header for use with LIRC.
I'm a little disapointed with the noise from the Travla case fan. I bought a "low noise" 40mm fan from Micro Center, and it was barely audible when I powered it up, but when I installed it in the case, it makes more noise than the original. There must be something about the grill, or vibration of the case itself.
I had ordered a PVR-500MCE from buy.com, and after a month of it on backorder, ordered another from BLT, figuring I'd cancel one when the other shipped. They both shipped at the same time two weeks later. D'Oh!
Installed one PVR-500 in my old 400MHz K6-3 desktop, built a lot of software, worked out a lot of problems (mostly of my own creation), and have a setup with very few problems.
There is some A/V stuttering occasionaly in live tv mode, which I need to work out. Also, the left and right side of the TV display are not straight. I tweaked the X driver so that it at least covers the entire visible portion of the TV, but it is very obvious when menus are displayed because the lines near the edges are curved. I'm waiting for an alternate TV out video card to determine if it is the M10K video, or my TV. The listers seem to think it is my TV, but my TiVo displays almost no curve, using the same input and cables.
Speaking of waiting, I finally ordered my dedicated backend parts, but for some reason a week has past and Monarch has still not shipped them. I scaled back to a single processor AMD64 3200+ (939), and lots of memory so I can also run Slim Server on the same machine. Slim Server seems to be a memory hog, keeping all the data of my CD collection in it's Perl brain. I'm hoping the new backend will relieve the A/V stuttering problem during live tv.
