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Simon Waters wrote: > Anyone using a DVB-T (think freeview) tuner with GNU/Linux care to tell > me what hardware/software (including host PC CPU and spec). > > I'm thinking about doing the "mythical convergence platform" for myself > (too many things under the television, and none of them let us surf or > check email, inspite of 4 remote controls -- one of them might be the > stereos - who knows). > I've not moved to DVB-T yet as I've still not done the cable runs for the aerial, but I've been using MythTV with analogue TV cards (initially the Hauppauge WinTV TV/FM cards and currently a pair of PVR250s) since about v0.07. When I initially installed it I was probably using one of the pre-Fedora RedHat releases, subsequently moved to Fedora and now CentOS (these days I just want something stable and easy to manage that I don't need to reinstall for a long time). Initially I was using a PIII-700 machine which could just about cope with recording and was fine for playback, but couldn't do more than one thing at once with any reliability. Currently I'm using a 2.8GHz P4 of the non-hyperthreading variety which has no problem recording two programmes and doing playback at the same time (with the PVR250s). I've always made sure the machines had plenty of memory in -- the current box has 1.5GB RAM, as I happened to have it lying about. Personally I don't think I'd ever be desperate enough to read my email or look at a webpage that I'd want to do it on a television set, certainly not a CRT one anyhow, but even ignoring that I think the Myth "music" interface is utterly horrible to use, so I don't. The main thing I've not worked out yet is whether it's worth going to the effort of hooking up the full 5-1 sound output, or going with the optical link to the amp. James -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html