[mythtvnz] Hardware spec question

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I have a d900 with a PVR150 and PV500 in it and it can record from all 3 tuners at the same time. I have not yet attempted to get the sat card that I have working at this stage, I might start to look at that next week. I have found that using it as a frontend is what takes up the processing power.
See how it goes, whats the worst that could happen............ ;)

Criggie wrote ..
> DVB is a digital stream and needs no reencoding.  So your D900 should be
> fine as a slave backend with the skystar card.  I haven't done this myself
> though.  IANALBYA :)
> 
> I use a C500 perfectly well as a play-only frontend.  Its a bit slow
> loading screens, but playback is fine.
> 
> I also use a P3 700 on 11g wireless which is okay, but is rather slow
> about framing backwards.  Its quicker to go back 1/2 second and frame
> forwards :)
> 
> 
> Nick Rout wrote:
> >
> > I have a mythtv box which has only got enough room for one PCI card -
> and
> > it has a PVR150.
> 
> > I also have a skystar 2 card and want to use it.
> 
> > I have a Duron 900 MHZ with 512M of ram and a crappy motherboard.
> 
> > Will it cut the mustard as a backend recording from a skystar? It
> > wouldn't be used for watching.
> 
> 
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