To all the experts out there.
My goal is to have a PVR to record OTA ATSC/NTSC and Firewire from a Cable STB. Would like ability to record 2/watch 1 w/pause-rewind etc. (mostly ATSC) with plans to have enough disk space to save things until BlueRay/????? is available for archive.
I had not done enough research, when I started, and planned to do it all with XP and MCE 2005 w/ATI tuners. Well, that's not going to happen so I've spent the last month reading forums, looking for software to do it. I looked a SAGE, the MDP-120/130 software etc. The only thing I've found that even has a chance of doing all of this is "MythTV". I have limited experience with Linux so that concerns me, a little, but my main concern is: will my system support the (software encode/decode)of 2ea HD-3000s and a PVR-250/350.
The equipment I bought is as follows:
Intel D915PBL 800 FSB motherboard P4 550 3.4g CPU 1024m DDR2/533 memory eVGA eGeFORCE 6600 Video (PCIe x16) 300g SATA HD - to start (room for 3 more drives) Audio is on-board Intel "High Def." (7.1 I think) Plextor PX-716A double layer cd/dvd Mandrake 10.1 Antec Overture case (Haven't bought the tuners yet)
Everyone seems to be happy with the pcHDTV tuners and the PVR-250/350's but I'm concerned with the heavy CPU workload of the HD-3000's in a possible situation of 2 HDTV recording sessions while watching a recorded HDTV program. Is there any chance the MDP-120/130s, with hardware encode/decode, are supported by MythTV? Also, does MythTV support Firewire? Do I have a better choice of tuners?
Well, that's probably more than anyone wants to digest at one time. Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Richard
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