Personally, I would've (and have) gone the other way: Low Horsepower + PVR-x50's -- great backend High Horsepower + nvidia card -- great frontend
Just the output filters alone available for cleaning up the video on the front-end make it worth putting some power into the front end. HDTV content is also fairly high on the CPU loading. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:27:58 -0800, Kenneth Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been researching MythTV setups and have come up with the following > hardware configuration. > > Requirements: > Backend System used as a file server, multi-media jukebox and PVR for > regular TV and EDTV (eventually over Comcast Cable when the HD-3000 drivers > for QAM decoding are released) > Connects to cheap front-end devices connected to an AV Receiver and EDTV in > one room, and a regular TV in another. Devices are controllable with a > programmable remote control. > Please let me know if you have any concerns or suggestions. > > Backend > Pentium 4 3.0 GHz 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2 Cache, HTT > 512MB RAM > 2 x 200 GM 7200 SATA HDD > 2 x Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 > pcHDTV HD-3000 > basic video & audio out > (Since theoretically, I could be streaming video to two front-ends, does it > help to have two -350's?) > > Frontend (EDTV Display, 5.1 Audio) > Xbox > Xbox HD AV Pack > Xbox DVD Movie Playback Kit with Remote > (CD Boot or HD Partitioned for MythTV, HD AV Pack supports component video > and optical audio out) > > Frontend (Standard TV) > Hauppauge MediaMVP > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > >
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