> Am thinking of bulding a MythTV box over the holiday period, using an
> old Pentium 233 box.
That's a *very* low spec for this sort of thing, isn't it?
> Are there any gotchas over choosing a Tuner card? I imagine with a low
> processor, I will need one which has hardware encoding - anyone got
> one in particular to play nicely with Linux?
Digital (DVB-T? DVB-S?) or analogue?
Analogue needs an encoder - in which case definitely go for a hw one;
digital records the already encoded mpeg2 stream.
For playback of mpeg2, a P3 450 is about the minimum grunt you can get
away with (hw support helps there too - iDCT, for example).
> Also, Is it possible to encode recordings to mpeg-4 and then save them
> over to a NAS device? I don't really want the machine sat in my lounge
> whirring away (already have a PVR Humax in place) and so by saving
> them on the NAS, I should be able to watch them using the PS3.
It's possible, but your 233 will take an age to do the transcoding.
Your NAS may be more capable <G>
Novatech have a little barebones system in today's missive that might be
a better start point for a PVR -
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BB-945222
Intel E2200/2GB DDR2/mbd/case
Of course, DVB-T2 is just around the corner if the Freeview HD offerings
are important to you...
HTH
Peter
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