Hi all,

I have a p3 500 with 640mb ram and 50gig hard drive.
I have a agp pny GeForce 5200 video card.
I have a realtech 10/100 nic.
I have a hp-3000 tv tuner card without remote.
I have a sound blaster sound card.

My question is will this run as a dvr and can I remove the sound card?
All I want is to be able to record tv programs and then show them on the tv. I am starting small and working my way to remove tv and dvd player. I need money to buy a digital projector.

A software tuner is going to criple that P3. It may work to record a show and playback later, but it will not work for live tv.

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I believe you mean HD-3000 which is an HDTV tuner card. Perhaps I'm wrong?

If I'm correct, then that machine will not even come close to being good enough. They say 3 GHz is pretty much a minimum for HDTV and the HD-3000 card.

I am sorry, the tv card is HD-3000. I got from the mythtv web site. All I want is to be able to record and play back later. Will this setup do it?

Yeah, sorry. It was ether very early in the morrning or very late at night when I wrote the message. I don't think that I am going to do HDTV even though I think that the card can do it. I don't have the money for a new pc. This is all I have extra lying around. Am I trying to much with old equipment?

Yes.

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Hi,
Just an idea, but why not try it and let everyone know what your results are?

Even though it can't handle the HD playback, then again there was this little train that "thought it could", it certainly is worth the try. KnoppMyth is an excellent experience. It will do a lot of other entertaining and you also will / can learn a lot along the way.

If I understand correctly, hd is already a digital stream and is basicly just transfered to the harddrive. It is the playback that requires the real horse power and it also takes a lot of space.

I run an Intel 600mhz 256 meg, 80gig with a PVR-350 and it is a rock with R5A16. I do have to use the low res (#2) option for the eye candy in MythMusic It records more than I have time to watch, but it lets me watch when I can. I use the Music most of all.

Good luck and enjoy!
Mike

Edit: after thought, I believe the 3000 also has a NTSC analog tuner. If so try that feature, might be marginal but could work.

Wanted to say thanks for your info. I will give another try. I haven't been able to install it, but I haven't been pushing myself to do it.

If you plan to get your channels over the air, consider doing something we were talking about as part of the next KRP system. You could probably record HDTV just fine with that hardware, then transcode it down to a smaller-resolution version before you view it, thus reducing the playback requirements.

If you use the right transcoding settings, you should end up with something that looks a _lot_ better than NTSC but is the same resolution. Now, the major caveat with this is that transcoding takes time in inverse proportion to the power of your CPU. I don't really know how long your CPU would take to transcode 1080i down to, say, 640x480 video for TV viewing. It _would_ do it, but it's just a question of whether or not it completes quickly enough for you to feel like you're watching a new show...

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