[wellylug] Question about PVR-350

[David Harrison]

If you used the TV Out option on the PVR 350 as described I think 
you'll find a low end CPU would do:
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2003-July/008973.html

I have to say with my setup (AMD 2.4ghz) I barely hit 15% CPU 
utilization when decoding and when recording 2-5%.

You'd still need a low end graphics board for the install in order to 
configure your system and tvout options (which takes a lot of trial and 
error :-) )

Make sure you get the largest disks you can. I have 2x200gig drives and 
I still find myself searching for space somedays due to the number of 
Simpsons episodes onscreen every week and my slowly growing movie 
collection :-)


D.


On 10/10/2004, at 9:46 PM, jumbophut wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:09:19 +1300, David Harrison wrote:
>> I have a Haupauge PVR 250 which is the trimmed down 350 without 
>> decoding
>> (I use a GeForceFX 5700 for that).
>> It works very nicely as a MythTV solution (I've even got the channel
>> information working nicely).
>>
>> With any setup you should be able to view the stream in a window or
>> fullscreen or to a TV without many issues.
>> Checkout:  http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
>>
>
> Thanks David.  The goal here would be to run MythTV on a fanless box
> (e.g. EPIA 600Mhz mobo).  The link you posted does seem to suggest all
> the MPEG work will be done on the PVR-350, whether displaying to
> screen or TV-out, which means having a crap CPU doesn't matter much.
> This is good news.
>
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