 Building my own home theater PC (Tivo like device) |
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 Feb 3 2007, 02:56 PM
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newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 1-February 07 Member No.: 1,642  |
QUOTE (patred @ Feb 3 2007, 09:19 AM)  ... we all know what happened to Greg after he showed up. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) But it looks like AI's already taken every hardtop within a 500 mile radius. Diabolical! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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Mar 6 2007, 01:34 PM
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Experienced Member  Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,427 Joined: 12-February 04 From: Huntingtown, MD Member No.: 193 |
I ended up buying everything I needed for the computer to build my own Tivo. I used an old 1.2 Ghz AMD Thunderbird with 512 MB ram and a 160 GB hard drive. I bought SageTV 6, a Hauppauge PVR-500, and use Nvidia Pure video decoder. Everything works great. It took me about 30 min to set-up and with a few tweaks it has been working perfectly for the last week. The only tweak I did was to use the Nvidia Pure video decoder instead of SageTv's, video would skip a little using SageTV's decoder because I don't have a DXVA compatible video card. If I had a video card that supported DXVA I might be able to get away with slower hardware but without that and using Nvidia Pure video decoder it looks great. Highly recommended.
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