[mythtvnz] New to Myth TV and would like your opinion

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Arjan Harre <harreclan at clear.net.nz> wrote:
>
> *
> One thing you don't mention is the video card. Intel or Nvidia would
> probably
> be best, ATI have been known to have issues. *
>
> Ah yes Sorry, the Video card is a Radeon 9600 256 meg.
>
> *The only thing that doesn't work currently (that I'm aware of) is the DVB
> terrestrial broadcast. Satelitte is fine. *
> *
> If it were me I would go for a PVR-150 for broadcast and a DVB-S card for
> freeview. The Microsoft MCE remotes work well and are reasonably priced.
>
> *Cool thats exactly what I was thinking, standard broadcast reception is
> fairly dodgy around here so I tuned the earial for Prime as much as
> possible and use the DVB-s for the rest.
> *
> You've got plenty of memory, CPU is a little low but should be fine for SD,
> the type video card will make a difference.*
>
> I only have an old CRT tv and a fairly good projector, the projector
> will do 720P. I have no issue with SD at this stage. Should I ever buy
> an HD TV I will probably upgrade the myth box too.
>
> *Could you use 2 tuners? Sure. *
>
> Nice, just the answer I was hoping for.
>
> *The weather bit doesn't work, from memory. We've never used it at any
> rate.
>
> *OK, I think I can live with that :-) , although .... I have the weather
> thing working very nicely now with Firefox on a windows machine.
> *
> **To expand on this, you'd use the DVB-S card in the mythbox to get
> freeview
> using mythtv itself, and the SkyTV box video out would go into the PVR-150
> analog capture card.
>
> Satellite dish -> splitter
> splitter->skybox for prime and whatnot
> splitter->dvb-s card in mythbox and freeview*
>
> At this stage I do not think I will be getting Sky, but thanks for the
> info anyway.
> *
> **If you're meaning two skyboxes on a PVR-150 each, yeah. 0.21 of myth
> supports virtual tuners, so you could use the one DVB-S card to record as
> many freeview channels at once as you want.
>
> *Very Cool!!! .... so which DVB-S card would be best suited? I see
> pricespy ranges anywhere from $111 to $227. None of them mention a built
> in MPEG 2 decoder?
>
> Arjan

http://nicegear.co.nz for the DVB-S card(s)

You won't need a DVB-S decoder with mythtv, and that CPU will do it
anyway, standing on its head will recompiling itself and doing
foldingathome :-)

Myth saves the stream to hard drive and then decodes and plays it back.



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