Hi All,
I've been following the All-in-Wonder thread with a little disappointment,
as there's one in the mail on it's way to me right now.
Is there *any* single-board solution for MythTV? I'm trying to build a
media box in one of the Cupid 2677R cases (nice and small); it has one
(yes, 1) PCI expansion slot, and the motherboards available for the form
factor (mFATX/mini-ITX) either have soldered-in too-slow processors (eg,
Via C3 800 MHz, equivalent to a PIII-500 at best) *or* don't have TV out.
Therefore, the best approach seems to be to use an all-in-one video card to
capture the TV signal and generate the TV out, with a motherboard that can
carry a processor, say, Celeron 1.4GHz, with sufficient oopmh to do at
least VCD-level live TV without dropping any frames.
Any advice from someone on the list with relevant experience building
similar boxes?
Also, I'd love to see more reports of resolution/quality vs CPU load for a
given processor speed!
Cheers,
- pz.
--
John Pezaris, Ph.D.
pz@hms.harvard.edu
I've been following the All-in-Wonder thread with a little disappointment,
as there's one in the mail on it's way to me right now.
Is there *any* single-board solution for MythTV? I'm trying to build a
media box in one of the Cupid 2677R cases (nice and small); it has one
(yes, 1) PCI expansion slot, and the motherboards available for the form
factor (mFATX/mini-ITX) either have soldered-in too-slow processors (eg,
Via C3 800 MHz, equivalent to a PIII-500 at best) *or* don't have TV out.
Therefore, the best approach seems to be to use an all-in-one video card to
capture the TV signal and generate the TV out, with a motherboard that can
carry a processor, say, Celeron 1.4GHz, with sufficient oopmh to do at
least VCD-level live TV without dropping any frames.
Any advice from someone on the list with relevant experience building
similar boxes?
Also, I'd love to see more reports of resolution/quality vs CPU load for a
given processor speed!
Cheers,
- pz.
--
John Pezaris, Ph.D.
pz@hms.harvard.edu