2005-02-15, 17:33
(beef @ feb. 14 2005,15:44 Wrote:this clearly rocks and since you all know what you are talking about im gonna ask my question right here, hope thats ok.the program we're using is myth tv. as far as i know, it does not run on windows 2000 yet although there may be an effort to port it. you don't need any additional plugins to use the xbmcmythtv python scripts for xbmc with a myth tv backend.
i have an 2000 server as fileserver atm and was thinking of making it my new stream-comp/digitalvcr. (was hoping to keep running 2k server if possible)
all i want to know is what analog tv-turnercard you all recommend. ive seen so many different and id like to make the right choice right away so it will save me time later.
ex. a analog tv-turnercard that is compatible with the program needed to control the whole thing from my xboxes.
id appreciate all response to my reply, and o man i cant wait til i get it up and running so i can contribute to this thread for real.
cheers guys and keep up the grand work.
/beef
ps. what's the correct name of the program and the plugin that i need on the serverside?
as for cards, i can't really tell you what is the best... but i can tell you that i have a hauppauge pvr 250 that works really well for me because it encodes directly to mpeg-2 in hardware. other people that have bought cards that require software encoding have had problems playing back the files without first transcoding them to some other format. also, a hardware encoding card reduces the cpu load on the server.
if you want to stick with windows 2000, then there are other solutions that might be supported by xbmc. i don't know a whole lot about them but you can look into realtv, snapstream (there may be others as well).