User:Nik Doof

About Me

My name is Andrew Williams, Business Intelligence Analyst from Widnes, UK.

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MythTV Boxes

Combined Front/Back - MythTV

• Asus K8N-SE (Socket 754)
• Athlon64 3200+
• 1Gb DDR RAM
• 20Gb Seagate UIDE HDD (not mounted)
• 200Gb Maxtor SATA I HDD (/mnt/mythtv - xfs) - lvm
• 250Gb Maxtor SATA I HDD (/mnt/mythtv - xfs) - lvm
• 250Gb Western Digital SATA II HD (/ and /mnt/vault - xfs)
• LG DVD±RW DL
• nVidia FX 5200 (S-Video Out)
• 1x Hauppage Nova-T (DVB-T)
• Gentoo 2007.0 with 0.21-svn

Providers

• UK Freeview (DVB-T), Winterhill Transmitter (Rooftop "Contract" aerials).

Content

The combined Backend/Frontend box can decode 1080i content without the use of XvMC, but it runs at around 60-70% CPU usage, possibly enough spare for pure DVB source recording.