On Monday 06 April 2009 08:55:16 AdamC wrote: > Am thinking of bulding a MythTV box over the holiday period, using an > old Pentium 233 box. > > Are there any gotchas over choosing a Tuner card? I imagine with a low > processor, I will need one which has hardware encoding - anyone got > one in particular to play nicely with Linux? > > Also, Is it possible to encode recordings to mpeg-4 and then save them > over to a NAS device? I don't really want the machine sat in my lounge > whirring away (already have a PVR Humax in place) and so by saving > them on the NAS, I should be able to watch them using the PS3. > > TIA > Adam
Adam, Have a look at: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hardware_Requirements Are you thinking of recording analog or digital TV? I have a NOVA T-500 dual tuner DVB-T card which works almost flawlessly. http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500 However, you might be pushing your luck a bit with those low-end specs... Cheers, Steve -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
