[Cialug] Media Center...

[Nathan C. Smith]

Ancient machines.  AMD Athlon stuff from years ago.  I trip over faster processors these days but It is configured and working so I leave it alone.  It is all standard def.

I was wondering about using the HD Homerun with Cable. ..  I can tune in the HD channels in a certain range, but they don't seem to be published in the usual guide information.  Do you have to transpose the information somehow?  I don't have "digital cable".  Just extended basic so I can tune the free HD channels but I wrote my own channel guide to do it and then tune them manually.  I don't think Windows media center found the "free" HD channels either.

-Nate

From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 4:08 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Media Center...

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:

I was going to suggest a Silicondust HDHomerun as well.  But I was wondering about the age of the optiplex.  The HDHomerun is for HD only.  It doesn't work with my mythtv setup because my machines aren't powerful enough .  I have used it with OTA and I can confirm it works.

How fast are your machines? I wasn't aware that it required much horsepower to use that. Or is it just the playback of HD content? I was thinking about getting one of these soon.

Regarding video cards, I bought one like this for my standard def tv, it's low profile and it has svideo and dvi out.

 
-Nate

From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of jrnosee
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:59 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Media Center...

Given you want netflix I'd suggest windows 7 home premium (inc. Win media center.)  Not knowing your optiplex I'm going to wish you luck on finding a graphics card that will do what you want, but then again I'm used to my work optiplex with half-height cards so I doubt hdmi would be an option in one like mine.  For a tuner I HIGHLY recommend an HDHomerun.  Works great with my cable.  Anyone else tried these with OTA?  I think they're ATSC capable.  Otherwise for windows I have a pinnacle PCTV HD card that works fine.  A warning though, I never got it to work right with a linux system.
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