I'll ask again after tomorrow when the digital cable gets hooked up and I know what digital cable box I have and what's on it.<br><br>Oh, I've got a 1.67Ghz AMD Athlon 2000+ chip in my desktop. If I upgrade my RAM to say 1GB and put at least a 128MB video card in there, would that make it a sufficient dedicated MythTV box?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark J. Small</b> <<a href="mailto:msmall@eastlink.ca">msmall@eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 10:55, Derek Meek wrote:<br>> Steven Adeff wrote:<br>> >On 6/27/06, Derek Meek <<a href="mailto:thekazan@gmail.com">thekazan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> >>A) you digital cable company should continue sending the analog channels
<br>> >>across the cable<br>> >>B) to get your digital cable channels on mythTV you have to slave your<br>> >>cable box<br>> >><br>> >>may $DIETY save your $SUPERNATURAL_PRESENCE if you get a Motorola
<br>> >>DCT2000 like i did<br>> ><br>> >I've got a DCT2000 box, and while mine doesn't have svideo output<br>> >(what the f- is wrong with comcast?), it works great and tunes<br>> >perfectly over the serial port. It even has a digital coax output for
<br>> >sound, which I can't use, but I find interesting given the svideo<br>> >situation.<br>> ><br>> >Why won't Hauppauge just make a PVR card with spdif input?!<br>><br>> mine doesn't have a serial port so i have to use IR - DCT2000s have
<br>> SEVERE problems with IR<br><br>I've worked out all of my problems with IR on my 2 DCT2000s. It really helped<br>to nice the channel change scripts so that the 0.7 second delay between sends<br>didn't stretch out to 4 seconds under heavy system load. I still get a few
<br>bad channel changes, but I'd say its way under 1%<br><br>It really helps to tweak your channel changing. I use to miss a lot of<br>recordings due to bad channel changes, especially at certain times of day.<br>Almost never now.
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