[mythtv-gta]: A MythTV building workshop?

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:13 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury-Q6Ug6qEURudg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 08/06/2010 03:11 PM, Colin McGregor wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 1:10 PM, aaron<memoryguy-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:55, R. G. Newbury<newbury-Q6Ug6qEURudg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sounds like a good idea. Would also be useful to do the same (maybe in
>>>> parallel) with Mythdora. There arr differences between Ubuntu based and
>>>> Fedora based distros that can be highlighted plus some discussion of
>>>> apt-get
>>>> v yum setups. And dependency resolution for when things go wrong. (What?
>>>> Something go wrong? What could go wrong?)
>>>
>>> I build from source on Slackware... is there a workshop for me? ;-)
>>
>> Not yet anyway :-) .
>>
>>> This sounds interesting. I'd like to go but it's far from me so I
>>> might have trouble getting there. Keep us posted when it is and I'll
>>> try to see if I can make it.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> And I would add, at a minimum, if you can get one, an ATSC based tuner
>>>> preferably USB style (Hauppauge HVR-950 would be good) and maybe the
>>>> loan of
>>>> an HDHomeRun. You might need an RF amp and some splitters, plus some
>>>> coax
>>>> cables. And amp and speakers....Some really good HD on a separate drive
>>>> (/video!) and a pre-configured mythconverg db for 'show and tell'.
>>>
>>> I feel fairly comfortable with Myth... at least with my own
>>> configuration... but I know I want to upgrade eventually. I'm
>>> capturing from two PVR-250s, outputting via VGA from a GeForce4 440MX
>>> (anyone else remember when that was the "recommended" card for Myth?
>>> :) ). I know things have moved along quite a bit in the six years
>>> since I built my system...
>>
>> Oh, that is dated. When I wrote about MythTV in the fall of 2005
>> (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8658) the PVR-150 was out and the
>> recommended video card was the GeForce 5200... Yes, you should be
>> looking at some upgrades :-) .
>>
>> Colin.
>
> I wonder if some of the FreeGeek boxes would be powerful enough if you were
> using vdpau (or even xvmc with an intel chipset and recent driver). That can
> make an astounding difference.

I gather that VDPAU capable video cards were not produced for AGP
video card slots. I don't know if FreeGeek gets in any PCI-Express
capable machines (I doubt it, but I will ask).

Colin.

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