Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread Mike Wafkowski
riginal Message - From: "Kirk Grell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 3:40 AM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box... > You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with > this. > > I'll definitely go with the 150 (p

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with > this. > > I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE > version). Here is a comparison shot someone did of a 250 and a 150. You can see what I mean when I said the 150 was softer. http

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with > this. > > I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE > version). Smaller board, less heat, cheaper, easier > to setup, yet good quality. And It didn't even dawn > on me that I'd be usi

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-17 Thread Kirk Grell
You guys are awesome!! Thanks for helping me with this. I'll definitely go with the 150 (probably the MCE version). Smaller board, less heat, cheaper, easier to setup, yet good quality. And It didn't even dawn on me that I'd be using the S-Video input on the card instead of the tuner. Duh. :)

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread John Andersen
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I > really want as high quality of video as I can get > before transcoding. In terms of MPEG2, does output > from the PVR-150 look as good as output from the > PVR-350? I have one of each. I t

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/16/05, Michael Bochynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, George Nassas wrote: > On 16-Dec-05, at 11:08 AM, Kirk Grell wrote: > > > I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I > > really want as high quality of video as I can get > > before transcoding.

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Michael Bochynski
On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 11:30 -0500, George Nassas wrote: On 16-Dec-05, at 11:08 AM, Kirk Grell wrote: > I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I > really want as high quality of video as I can get > before transcoding. In terms of MPEG2, does output > from the PVR-150 look as good

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm building my first MythTV box. It'll be a back > end > > > box that I'll admin remotely (web, rsh, ftp, etc). > > > It's sole purpose r

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread George Nassas
On 16-Dec-05, at 11:08 AM, Kirk Grell wrote: I could bump down to PVR-150. Main thing is that I really want as high quality of video as I can get before transcoding. In terms of MPEG2, does output from the PVR-150 look as good as output from the PVR-350? The 150 tuner chips are more recent t

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Kirk Grell
--- Andrew Close <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm building my first MythTV box. It'll be a back end > > box that I'll admin remotely (web, rsh, ftp, etc). > > It's sole purpose right now will be to schedule > > recordings and transcode them t

Re: [mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Close
On 12/16/05, Kirk Grell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm building my first MythTV box. It'll be a back end > box that I'll admin remotely (web, rsh, ftp, etc). > It's sole purpose right now will be to schedule > recordings and transcode them to smaller video files > for pulling later to my PC at a

[mythtv-users] Building first MythTV back end box...

2005-12-16 Thread Kirk Grell
I'm building my first MythTV box. It'll be a back end box that I'll admin remotely (web, rsh, ftp, etc). It's sole purpose right now will be to schedule recordings and transcode them to smaller video files for pulling later to my PC at a different location. I'm not planning for any other MythTV