Hello,

In the next week or so I'll be ordering the parts for a PVR. I really want to try to stay way from a windows based solution (even though I like Media Portal and GB-PVR) so I'm going to give this a whirl with MythTV using KnoppMyth.

Here is what I have on my shopping list:

ECS NForce4-A754 Motherboard
AMD Sempron 2600+ 90nm CPU
PQI 512MB PC3200 Ram
Hauppauge PVR-500MCE
XFX Geforce 6200 video card (TV-out, vga-out, DVI)
WD 200GB Hard Drive (recording)
WD 40GB Hard Drive (all else)
NEC 16X ND-3520A DVD Burner (black)
Silverstone Lascala 10 Case (black)
Coolmax 350w CX-350 PS (very quite)

Anyway here are my concerns/questions:

1. Are there any obvious "gotchas!" with any of the above?
2. Any issues with NForce4 chipset and MythTV/GnoppMyth?
3. Will I be able to burn my recorded shows to DVD?
3b. What software will I need and anyone has a good guide?
4. How many hours recording will I get with the 200gb HD?
5. With this setup will I be able to watch live TV and record one show or two shows?
6. Which remote would work well with this setup and MythTV? (I was thinking of a Firefly remote).
7. If I wanted to add a wireless card to this so I can stream some stuff back and forth is there a "best" one to get (as for as linux support)?

Thank you!

1. Looks ok (I'll never buy an ECS motherboard again)...
2. None I'm aware of.
3. Yes.
3b. Nuv2disc, nuvexport and Mythburn. Yes (search, I'd have to).
4. That all depends on your capture profile. At least 100.
5. Watch live, record one.
6. ATi remote wonder.
7. No personal wireliss experience w/ Linux.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Nforce4 - has anyone here seen any PCIe cards aside from the video cards and a handful of disk controllers? It may be the future but there's remarkably little available for it at the moment. 8-/

(~200Gb - formatting/filesystem overhead) / 2.2Gb/hr = ~85 hours

THanks for the info,

This is my first ECS board but I've known people (non-OCers) that have with no problems. I figure for what I'm using it for it will be fine.

I guess I'll see if I can get this up and working and then add a 2nd card so I can watch live tv and record two shows (need to do this is pretty common with the GF).

After some searching I found the Foxconn WLL-3350 which has numerous reports of working fine with Linux so I've added that to my list.