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drvik
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 Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:05 am Post subject: Best hardware choices for MythTV frontend??? |
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Hi guys,
I am putting together a MythTV frontend... this box will be used for watching HDTV and will need enough grunt for deinterlacing and postprocessing.... from what I have read, I am better off with a Pentium 4 system than an AMD Athlon (this is what I currently have and struggle at playing back HDTV material... Athlon2500+)....
Additionally, I need a video card that will support XvMC, which I presume means NVidia only... is there any benefit in moving up from the basic MX440 card to something like the FX5700 or later??
I also will only be outputting sound via and external Dolby/DTS decoder so will need SPDIF support that will send bitperfect 44.1kHz....
And finally.... Should I use SATA or PATA??? Is the linux support for SATA mature enough????
So which Pentium 4 core and motherboard combo will give me enough bandwidth for such a task as well as meeting my above criteria, whilst preferably having support within the kernel and being super stable?????
Looking forward to everyones opinions!
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boxxed
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: Chek this out |
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| You might want to take alook here. http://opendreambox.afraid.org Look up Stile, he may have some good info for you. |
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boxxed
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| Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:13 am Post subject: Chek this out |
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| You might want to take alook here. http://opendreambox.afraid.org Look up Stile, he may have some good info for you. |
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drvik
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Thanks boxxed, but that device only deals with satellite DVB signals... I intend to to Free to Air Digital TV in Australia... so any other recommendations out there??
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drvik
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Thought I would update this thread... quite some time after I asked the original question... I now purchased a Athlon64 3700+ and a ASUS A8N-VM-CSM motherboard + 2x512M DDR 400 ram... this has enough grunt to display and deinterlace 2 1080i feeds (think picture in picture)... I recommend this solution highly... the built in Nvidia 6150 has the necessary XvMC support should you want it, and the video is always upgradeable....
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