On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 14:25 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Friday 18 March 2005 13:38, Larry Sanderson wrote: > > > Man, that backend is way overkill. I am running two Air2pc cards, 2 > > > PVR250's and 500tb of storage on a Athlon 2400 512 megs of memory. That > > > is even more that I need. The power needs to be in the frontend. > > > > > > My frontend is a P4 3g 1gig memory NVidia 5200. > > > > Oh - I thought the power had to be in the backend. I've been reading so > > much about this stuff recently, I must have gotten a few wires crossed. > > Definitely crossed wires. Both my HD capture systems are dual PIII boxes, one > with dual 500s, one with dual 600s (all hooked to 1.5TB of storage). My HD > playback frontend is an Athlon XP 3200, 512MB of RAM and a GF FX 5200.
Why so much juice in your front-end CPU? > > By the way, does the Air2pc card perform better (or more stable) than the > > pchdtv card? > > The Air2PC reportedly handles weak broadcast HD signals better than the > pcHDTV > card. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." Edward Gibbon
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