On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:42 PM, John Meier <john.meier at gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy- > > Hoping there's a few Mythtv users lurking about.... > > I dropped the Directtv recently switched to OTA with an HD homerun sitting > on my network. My old Knoppmyth box can't keep up with the HD content. Was > wondering if anyone has any recommendations for a good solid mobo where all > features work with linux. I'll be putting in a video card - probably a fx > 5200 I have laying around here - unless there's something better. > > I'd like to be able to record and watch at the same time and will probably > just use the stereo jack to patch into the TV speakers - but it'd be nice to > use a spdif connection to my old home theater setup. > > CPU fan/heatsink is another concern - any recommendations there? > You might first try with newer version of mythtv + nvidia card + XvMC extensions enabled. XvMC (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XvMC) will offload your main CPU of the decoding of the MPEG2 video to the GPU. So, you might not need to upgrade the computer itself. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.