[Luna] BBS "new password" function not working

[Andrew Roazen]

...otherwise, I wouldn't post this here.

Kyle, what you have is a WinTV-GO which is optimized to get video onto a 
computer's screen but lacks the dedicated hardware for video capture. It 
has no MPEG2 encoder onboard (the Conexant chip you mention is the 
tuner) and under Windows requires a 733MHz or better to encode MPEG2 to 
disk, 1GHz for DivX.

At least one person has managed building a Myth box around this, but I 
suspect he used a faster CPU. I can get away with doing my setup on a 
450MHz PIII because the PVR-150 does the heavy lifting in hardware, 
playback is relatively cheap on processor resources, and I'm not 
burdening the Myth box with background tasks like transcoding the videos 
down to smaller MPEG4s.

I wouldn't recommend building a Myth box with a HD less than 100Gb in 
size: 10-15Gb are required for a base Ubuntu/Myth boot partition 
followed by another 1Gb for swap, then factor in a dedicated MPEG2 
encoder using 2.2Gb/hour of television. Out of 30Gb this doesn't leave 
much.

Used PCs from NAU campus surplus that come close to the desirable specs 
range from $175-225, and even then you're looking at 256Mb RAM and 30Gb 
HD, tops.

If someone familiar with building PCs from scratch can estimate what a 
1GHz/512Mb/100Gb would cost to build, let me know.
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