On 17/01/06, Paul Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All > > Well my myth setup has been working great for over a year now so I thought > it's about time I broke it! I'd like to add a second capture card to the > system. Currently here's what I have: > > Athlon XP 2000 > 512Mb Ram > 1 X 160Gb Seagate Baracuda 7200RPM 2Mb cache dedicated capture / buffer > device. > Fedora 3 (going to 4 when 5 releases) > PVR-250 capturing over SVID from SKY reciever > > I'd like to add a DVB-T card to the above, so I need advice on a few items: > > 1) Card recommendations. Something that will work well with the 250 and is > reliable.
I use both Hauppauge Nova-T and V-Stream DVB Xpert cards with PVR-x50 cards with no problems (once you've got dvb and ivtv working together) > 2) Disk bandwith. Can I get away with one drive if I wanted to record 2 > programs and watch a recorded show at the same time ? (This would be > pretty unusual but ...) I've got a Celeron 2.4 MBE and can easily manage this, even on a Celeron 1.3 SBE. Disk usage for UK DVB/PVR recordings is not high (~1MiB/s per recording). When HD arrives this will change though. > 3) Good general resources for DVB under Linux since I know pretty much > nothing about DVB. http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://www.ethics-gradient.net/myth/mythdvb.html http://mythtv.info/ (and wikipedia and Google) > > I have another spare Baracuda so I could stripe the capture device but I'm > trying to have the minimum number of drives in the server to keep heat / > power consumption down. No need to IME. You may want to create an LVM though so you can expand your recording capacity as and when necessary. Nick _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
