RE: HTPC - what card?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What method do you use Phil - and how good is it?

I'm still wondering whether to go for Myth, New MCE box (like the Acer box
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recently posted) or a home brew MCE box - or maybe just one of the many
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ia player devices out there.

So to recap - just need to play existing video files and be able to easily
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rip DVD's to play. Box will sit in Node0 and output will be distributed by
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Composite (or maybe VGA/component etc in future). HD playback capability
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uld be a nice bonus in the future POSSIBLY?

Any thoughts on what I should go for?

Thankus muchus.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Phil Harris
> Sent: 07 June 2006 13:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HTPC - what card?
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> ... "Any decent GeForce 4 or better will have composite out built
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> "Any GeForce 4 or better will have decent composite out built
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> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of mailinglists
> > Sent: 06 June 2006 23:01
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] HTPC - what card?
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> > The PVR250 is a hardware mpeg encoder card. If you're not
> > recording you don't need one. Any decent GeForce 4 or better
> > will have composite out built in.
> >
> > > Im thinking about putting together a MythTV based HTPC  but
> > not for recording  file playback only. My Sky HD box will do
> > all the recording I need (arrives tomorrow).
> > >
> > > Any suggestions as to video/accelerator card I should go
> > for? Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 seems to be recommended a lot
> > is this still a good card to go for for what I need?
> > >
> > > Oh, and I want good composite out (for distribution to all
> > TVs around the house via my Kat5/Extron switcher combo).
> > >
> > > Thanks,
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> > > Paul.
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