[mythtvnz] Freeview hardware advice sought

[Douglas Pearless]

For freeview SD (i.e. satellite), you should have enough horsepower, but for freeview HD (UHF), then you really need a NVIDIA 8xxx or 9xxx graphics card to use VDPAU with 512MB of video memory to get it to work reliably, in which case it might be time to upgrade the motherboard and graphics too... 

Quoting "Kerry Baker" <kerry.baker at orcon.net.nz>:

> Hi all,
> I have a Via EPIA SP13000 system with a Hauppauge PVR-150 running MythDora
> 10.21 (a Fedora 10 based distro with Mythtv 0.21).  Mythtv is running as a
> backend and frontend on the box.  It works well with my current setup.
> I'm thinking about replacing the PVR-150 with a DVB board for Freeview.
> My question is what would the list members recommend?
> My EPIA system is low powered but the PVR-150 does its encoding in
> hardware so I would think a DVB board would need to do the same.
> I have no preference between satellite or terrestrial but I doubt my
> system would handle terrestrial HD.
> I would be interested to find out how much processing power is required
> for a DVB.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Kerry
>
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