[NCLUG] MythTV Questions

[DJ Eshelman]

You know, I guess this thread is a good as any to ask this question, but 
does anyone have any ideas about best price/performance video capture 
cards?  Especially ones with component and Svideo INPUTS (lots have 
outs, but I don't know what to do for ins).
Basically I've got a lot of VHS tapes that I'd really like to convert to 
MPEG4 or H.264 files; has anyone had success/failures?  There's 
obviously this list:  
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Video_capture_cards  but 
I'm curious about local experience...  Obviously there's the option of 
the Hauppauge PVR-150 at about $60 for SD captures and the PVR-150MCE-LP 
is nice for low profile.  I was intrigued by the Plextor ConvertX (which 
has hardware encoders, but I wonder how flexible/compatible that would be)

Oh, and I just noticed that the price on the AMD LE-1600 45W processor 
is down to around $40- does anyone know if that would work well as 
opposed to a VIA C7 for a fanless/singlefan box configuration?  As Paul 
was saying- the big huge loud box usually isn't a big hit :)  Maybe 
building a box with that would be cheap and quiet...



Paul Hummer wrote:
> Preface : While these questions are specifically for Brian, I think 
> there's value in getting everyone else's ideas as well.
>
> MythTV has been a hit at my house.  My wife loves it, but she doesn't 
> love the fact that now there's a computer in the living room as well 
> as in both bedrooms.  She probably wouldn't mind if the box wasn't so 
> big and ugly, and right next to the TV stand.
>
> Brian showed off some UPnP clients that would probably work quite 
> well.  I could put that big ol' ugly box in the closet with the two 
> rackmount servers I bought from Tummy, and then put the small UPnP 
> device by the tv.  My requirements are these:
>
> DVI out (or at least VGA)
> Remote Control (no keyboard)
> Able to read from the MythTV-server
> Remote Control
> Remote Control
>
> Brian, could you also post the hardware list of the things you demoed, 
> like that HD HomeRun?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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