Hardware for pvr

[Amos H. Weatherill]

Your right, I think that $1600 is too expensive for a PVR Computer.
Also, I wound recommend an AMD processor for this kind of task because
the extremely deep pipelines on the Pentium 4 processor can impact
the computers ability to multitask effectively in this situation.

Hyperthreading could be a booster for this, though, so you have to
make the final decision.

Obviously, you should check the MythTV hardware compatibility list before
purchasing anything.

For MythTV, though you can take just about any AMD Athlon XP or better
processor
and add supported hardware MPEG2/4 encoders on PCI cards.

Yours Sincerly
Amos "The Compudoc' Weatherill

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I know, it.s been beaten to death.  I was wondering if the
bellow system is powerful enough to handle myth TV encoding
and streaming video for MPEG-4.  The TV card I might
use will not have hardware encoding on it.  Is mythTV the
most widely used pvr software?

1600 for a pvr / media center sounds expensive :-(


The system will likely be something like the bellow
system.  Is this overkill?
$389.99   Shuttle® SB77G5 Pentium® 4 Socket 775
$324.99   Intel® Pentium® 4 -630, 3.0-GHz @ 800Mhz w/ 2Mb
          EM64T XD (Socket 775)  w/ Heat Sink & Fan
$199.99   1Gb DDR SDRAM Ram Module, PC3200
$199.99   (2) 250GB Maxtor SATA-150 7200RPM 16Mb 9ms OEM
 $79.99   Leadtek® WinFast® TV2000 XP Expert (PCI)
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$1394.94
  $97.65
 $111.60
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$1604.19  Total
http://sys.us.shuttle.com/BarebonePromos/index.htm

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