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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Mythtvers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>I'm having another(!) go at setting up
mythtv in Wellington, using</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>MythBuntu 8.04.1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>CPU AMD 2400</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>RAM 3G</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>Video NVIDIA 5 series AGP 128M with
VGA and Composite out</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>500G SATA HDD</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>PVR-150, mainly for PRIME</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>NOVA-S DVB-S for other channels, if
works well might add a second one.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>I want to feed a VGA monitor and also
concurrently stereo / composite video to an AV receiver.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>I find running the setup I can only
get the PVR-150 detected, with a number of options, the x50 one would seem the
appropriate one.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS" size=2>However using the DVB option the NOVA
is not detected.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>How do I get the NOVA-S to detect? Its dish input
is currently connected to a 2 way splitter, to a working dish, the 2nd leg
is to a STB feeding 12V to the LNB. The STB works fine. NOVA-S
is in the second PCI slot from the AGP slot.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am not sure about the Video Source setup and the
grabber, it seems of DVB-S was detected I could pull an EPG off that, however
its not detecting....</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>For the 150 is it correct that no grabber should be
selected? (And if not what does one use instead?)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Have detected and added the analogue channels, however
currently rebooting, the black start mythbuntu screen is shown, finishes loading
the little bar, then it goes blank, hangs or something!
Hmmm. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Is mythbuntu the best distribution for the above
hardware?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Are there any local links that might give me some setup
direction?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I hope to serve the boxes name from the firewall using a
DHCP server to assign hostname and IP address, as everything else on the LAN
does, not sure if there is anything special to do for this.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Earlier I had managed to get a non copy protected DVD to play, with
impressive picture quality on a 1600 x 1200 monitor, silent of course
though!</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></DIV>My plan is to use this box as
combined front / back end, and assuming it gets to work to later add front
ends. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subsequently I want to work up a HD box using a dual
NOVA-T 500 when I have got the hang of the (simpler?) SD options, Maybe HD
will have got to the point of being workable with TV3. Current H/W plan is
to use a 3G Pentium / 4 G RAM with an AGP NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS, which is said
to have H.264 capability, I realise the Linux drivers are not yet
available. I am not sure if such a config will have enough CPU to do the
job, but noting some comments about single processors only being utilised in
dual CPU's would suggest to me it might be viable?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Also not sure if that video card will have enough grunt,
but if it is H.264 capable, then I assume it should eventually be?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>In advance, many thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR>Kind regards<BR>David
Hingston</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>