why you should try MythTv

[drew at drewtaylor.com (Drew Taylor)]

David Backeberg wrote:

> Incidentally, I used the Hauppauge PVR 250 card, but knowing what I now 
> know, I recommend a cheaper card with more mature drivers built directly 
> into the kernel, like the Hauppauge PCI WinTV card using the bttv drivers.

I haven't yet actually setup MythTV, but the advantage I've read about 
using the PVR-[23]50 cards is that they can do things in hardware. The 
250 does decoding, and the 350 does both encoding and decoding. This 
enables you to use a much lower powered (and probably quieter) box to 
run MythTV. And let's not forget the power savings of not running the 
latest Athlon-64 CPU either. ;-)

Which brings me to my next thought: typically MythTV setup. Is it better 
to run a high powered, beefy storage server somewhere doing the 
encoding, and then have a silent, low power box sitting beside the TV to 
pipe out the video as it's streamed over the network? Or do people just 
have a single box do it all?

Drew
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