Mailing List Archive: Capture card upgrade vs new machine

First things first: great work! I finally made the compilation in a
Suse 7 machine, it looks great!

Now, the point I think a lot of us are facing after running MythTV and
wanting to enjoy the system: I need an upgrade, URGENT!! :-)

I am testing the setup in a AMDk6-2 400, I know is an old one, but ....
well, this machine with an ATI TV Wonder VE as the capture card, it is
not possible to see LiveTV, it "jumps" too much, reading on the website,
etc.... what are your opinions? Buy a WinTV 350 for example ($200) ?
Will this be enough to watch Live TV and record or should I go to a
complete upgrade of the system, let's say >1.5ghz ??

Thanks for you opinions and again, it looks wonderful, it always
surprise me the amount of work that people can do... just for fun!! ;-)

K.

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A lot of the old k6 motherboards especially with VIA chipsets had broken
PCI implementations, and had big
problems playing video/DVD's. I had an old FIC motherboard I could
never get to play DVD's on, and when I
swapped it out for a BX chipset/Celeron 450, suddenly everything was
fixed. Take your $200 and go buy a
modern motherboard and a Athlon 2100 or close and forget the K6.

Andres Valenciano wrote:

> First things first: great work! I finally made the compilation in a
> Suse 7 machine, it looks great!
>
> Now, the point I think a lot of us are facing after running MythTV and
> wanting to enjoy the system: I need an upgrade, URGENT!! :-)
>
> I am testing the setup in a AMDk6-2 400, I know is an old one, but
> .... well, this machine with an ATI TV Wonder VE as the capture card,
> it is not possible to see LiveTV, it "jumps" too much, reading on the
> website, etc.... what are your opinions? Buy a WinTV 350 for example
> ($200) ? Will this be enough to watch Live TV and record or should I
> go to a complete upgrade of the system, let's say >1.5ghz ??
>
> Thanks for you opinions and again, it looks wonderful, it always
> surprise me the amount of work that people can do... just for fun!! ;-)
>
> K.
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