Thanks Don, I'm going to fire up another discussion on home media centers. Look forward to your comments on that thread. Brian
On Dec 29, 6:31 pm, "Don Delp" <[email protected]> wrote: > Depending on the tuner cards you get, this machine is either "no > problem" or "probably no problem". If your tuner does mpeg encoding > onboard, cpu doesn't have to do anything. I don't know how much cpu > we're talking if the card doesn't encode, but a dual p3 would probably > be ok for 2 or 3 at a time. With mine, I do extra encoding after > capture and cut 2GB/hr to 1GB/hr. Depending on how much recording > you're doing, this might get in the way. > > I'm using a hauppauge wintv pvr 150. Newegg, Amazon, and CompuPlus > all say it is discontinued, but ebay has them. New, it was around > $70. > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If the dual p3 machine would make a good backend mythbuntu server, I > > would like to snag that if I could. I'll still need to get a couple > > tuner cards for it, but it sounds like it would have good enough > > processing ability to record multiple cable shows simultaneously.... > > Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks. Just let me known if it's > > still available. > > > Brian > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
