Around about 26/09/05 10:27, Ben Edwards typed ...
Firstly what processor should I get. I had a AMD Sempron 3000+ to 3400+ in mind. What I was hoping on being able to do is allow the TV card to do the recording and have enough oomth in the CPU to be able to decode/play at the same time as recording or do I need two TV cards to do this. Being able to play and record at the same time is very important to me. How do I wire things up to record/play at the same time. If I had two cards would I have one wired to record an the other to play and do they have to be the same cards?
I can't really comment on the Nova as I've not gone down the DVB route on my PVR yet, but it seems fairly common. I don't believe the Nova would have TV-out (like the Hauppauge PVR-350 does), but I'm one of those who don't go for that sort of thing anyway, just a standard video-card with s-video out from eBuyer does it. Got a decent high-res. one (1024x768 on the s-video out) for ~25-30. (recommend nvidia-based so you get their drivers from atrpms)
You'll only need >1 Nova if you plan to record more than one channel at once. Get one working first, I reckon, then add another later on if you get everything going OK.
I use an Athlon 2200; anything that or better should be OK, depending upon your pocket :) You only need your CPU for playback decode (and advert transcoding), as the DVB stream is already compressed & will be dumped to the HD as-is.
I only have 512 Mb RAM; this causes some swapping on the frontend, I've found, after it's been left a bit, so I'm going to up it to 1Mb when I get the money. Your call there, it does work OK, but it's stress I think the box can do without (e.g,. swapping while recording/playing back).
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