User:Srandawa

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Located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Cable service from Comcast with HD.

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Current Setup

Hardware

Master Backend

Motherboard: Tyan Tiger MP S2460
CPUs: 2 x Athlon MP 1600 (1.4GHz)
RAM: 1GB PC3200 (266MHz)
HDD: 1 x IBM 20GB 2MB cache ATA66. Used for OS and system software.
Content Storage: 1.5TB Raid 5 volume NFS over 1000Mbit home network for recordings, music and movies. Consists of 4 500GB SATA drives and a Promise raid controller.

Main Frontend

Motherboard: MSI K9MM-V
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 3800+
RAM: 2GB 667MHz
Video Display Card: Nvidia GeForce MX 4000 AGP
Remote Control: Happauge included
Display: Sanyo PDP-42H2A, 42" plasma connected via VGA @ 1024x768
HDD 1: 1 x Maxtor 300GB 16MB cache SATA 3Gb/s. Used for OS and system software.
FireWire: SIIG Add-on card
Sound Card: SB Live (emu10k1) w/ 1/8" coaxial SPDIF
Sound Amplification: Onkyo HT-R510 6.1 receiver connected via SPDIF

Mplayer's hardware passthrough for AC3 and DTS works well. Neither passthrough currently works with MythTV. Using a 7 year old soundcard doesn't effect any quality since all the sound is passed over S-PDIF to my receiver.

Video Capture

  1. HD Homerun OTA with Phillips MANT 940 amplified antenna
  2. HD Homerun QAM
  3. Hauppauge PVR-250
  4. Motorola DCT-6200 HD cable box via firewire

Software

Distro: Gentoo Linux
Kernel: 2.6.23
Glibc: 2.6.1
MythTV: 0.21
IVTV: 1.0.3
Lirc: 0.8.3
QT: 3.3.8
Xorg: 7.2, server version 1.2.0

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