This may have been answered many times already, but searching the lists (and google) didn't seem to help too much.
I'm wanting to build a distributed myth setup (ie one mythbackend and two mythfrontends), and I'm wondering: 1) What is the best recording card to use? I've got lots of experience with Hauppauge PVR-350s (I built a 4 channel recorder..w/o myth), but I find the delay completely unacceptable for live tv. I haven't played with IVTV since version 1.9, so maybe this is fixed (seems to be a hardware issue though). Acceptable delay to me is <1 second. I'm willing to trade quality for speed here since I'm recording analog cable to begin with. My only other requirement is that it does hardware recording, since this box is also my web/mail server (machine is a 2.8GHZ AMD with 1GB RAM, and 400GB IDE with RAID6/LVM on Debian Sarge). In addition, I plan on having 3 recording cards in the box. Are the BTTV devices in general faster than IVTV? Can all this even be accomplished at this point in time? 2) What's the best compromise for mythfronend systems. I've read a lot of mixed reviews on using xboxes/ps2s. I'm wanting something really cheap (around $200/box), and extremely quiet. I'd like fanless, and may skip the hard drive and go with flash memory. MTIA, James _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
