Hi, After several months away(the box I was configuring was stolen). I'm back and planning its replacement.
The box will be a SFF Biostar iDEQ 330P with one of the newer/cooler generation AMD 64 processors (probably a "San Diego" unless anyone knows a good reason to go with a 512 KB cache variant). Last time I was around Jarrod was having some success with IVTV and the PVR-500. So the first questio is how this is progressing: Is the PVR-500 now a viable alternative in Linux? The next questions have to do with the benefits/disadvantages of the 500 against the 350 (with hardware decoding). Obviously it's nice to have two tuners. Is the picture quality of the 500 noticably worse than the 350? I will be using the HTPC into a flat LCD screen with DVI in. If I use DVI then the hardware decoder of the 350 is irrelevant, but what is the heat/noise tradeoff for software decoding likely to be using the AMD processor? Any quick help on this would really be appreciated. Also wondering about the best screencard to use. It has to be a PCI-E card, which I think limits me to ATI and Nvidia, and, at first glance the ATI's with passive cooling seem beefier than the Nvidia ones (where all but the lowest spec cards have nasty, whiny fans). I had an ATI card before that I was pleased with, but have read that picture quality is better with Nvidia. Any suggestions? Cheers Marius Thanks Registered Linux user
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