Another PVR question

[Charles Howse]

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On Monday 19 April 2004 09:23 am, Michael Gargiullo wrote:

> > Prefer not to spend over $50 US on TV card.
> > Can't afford any extra hardware.
>
> a $50 tuner card...  The best I've seen that works universally well is
> the win250-pvr card from Haugpauge just over $100.

Yes, it looks like I'll have to exceed my budget by quite a bit.
Circuit City has the HAU 980 you mention for $149.99 + tax.  $165 after tax 
here in Jackson.  :-(
It seems like a card that does the encoding/decoding onboard is the way to go, 
rather than letting the CPU do it, eh?

> > Is my hardware good enough for what I want to do?
>
> Your hardware should work ok.  What video card do you have?

Excellent!  That's reassuring.  :-)
I have a ATI Mach64 3D Rage iiC video card.
8 MB PCI.
Will that be OK?  It will play .mpg files full-screen, but they're too 
jittery, so I watch them in a window.

> It's as easy as installing ATrpms rpm and typing yum install mythsuite

Ummm....ATrpms rpm?
I already have atrpms-stable, good, testing and bleeding in my /etc/yum.conf, 
although they're commented out.
Which should I uncomment?

Sounds too good to be true.  
Are you saying it worked perfectiy out of the box?
You didn't have to install any drivers or do any mind-boggling configuration?

Are you running both the front-end and back-end on your main workstation?

>
> Check out the mythtv mailing list as well,  it's pretty active.

Right, I suppose that's a must for a PVR noob.  :-)

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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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