[Ham-Computers] Re: MythTV [Was: Ham-Computers] USB external HDD's
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kd4e
doc at kd4e.com
Fri Nov 28 16:06:14 EST 2008
There was a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-850 USB stick for $19.99 at
Circuit City today but I was unwilling to get up at 3AM to
get in line in hopes that they may have one in stock and
that I might get one! A friend checked at about 5:30AM and
they were out of stock - if they ever had them.
Meanwhile I did some more research and discovered that the
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950q USB stick has many more features
and is MythTV compatible and that the Hauppauge
WinTV-HVR-1950 external USB device (not a stick) performs
more features in hardware vs software and is also MythTV
supported.
The 950q is about $79. and the 1950 about $125.
Also, I believe that freedom to use all of the features,
including watching a show and recording a show at the same
time - in HDTV - requires a CPU better than 1.8GHz (assuming
an excellent video card and outboard processing in a
WinTV-HVR-1950 or equivalent - otherwise minimum CPU is
2.4HGz) and a display of 1920×1200 (WUXGA - wide) 17″ or
15.4″ viewable megapixels: 2.30 as well as lots of RAM
(preferably more than 1GHz actually available - not shared
with video) and a high quality video card (should support
XVideo (XV) extensions).
Is that all correct?
This is the leaset expensive laptop I have found so far that
meets most of the minimum requirements:
http://www.powernotebooks.com/viewsystem.php?sysId=2300
Other suggestions?
I realize that much less computer is acceptable for non-HDTV
but I am guessing that most new MythTV users will likely
want HDTV support.
WDYT?
> I had forgotten all about the MythTV project! Cool
> Linux-based system.
>
> I visited the MythTV site and read the
> docs:http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1
> <http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1>
>
> They are a little difficult to follow in places.
>
> If one were to use a laptop and a firewire, pcmcia, or USB
> hardware interface what would you recommend as a minimum
> configuration and what device would you recommend as most
> readily Linux compatible?
>
> I would be using Puppy Linux 4.11 (or newer when released).
>
> Note: I dropped forsale-swap at mailman.qth.net
> <mailto:forsale-swap%40mailman.qth.net> since we are
> now waaaay off topic! :-)
>
> > 3.7 GB here on my MythTV system...
> >
> > I don't even watch that much TV, but if you're recording
> > HDTV stuff over-the-air it eats disk space up in a hurry.
> >
> > At this point I never ever watch a TV program at the time
> > it's being aired, nor does anyone else in my family.
> >
> > Marvin KA7TPH
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