[Luna] BBS "new password" function not working

[Kyle Winfree]

Hey Andrew,
        Hmm, thats too bad to hear (unless of course you think it would 
work for at least time shifting live tv).  We just don't have the budget 
right now to buy (or build) a new comp of any speed, even a NAU surplus 
comp.  I'll keep my eye out for anything that might come along that I 
could use.  Thanks for checking into that video capture card too.
Kyle




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...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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