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Users / Re: Confused about tuner cards and the whole digital thing

« on: January 11, 2011, 11:44:31 pm »

For digital cable in the US, you need a tuner card/box that supports QAM.  What ever your cable company decides to encrypt, then you need their box to watch it.  There are other ways of wathcing the encrypted channels on your computer but that is another discussion all to itself.  For OTA programming in the US (through an antenna) you need an ATSC tuner card.  There are a bunch of them listed in the wiki.  A couple of companies that make them are Siliconedust, Hauppauge, and pcHDTV.

I hope this helps,

M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 08:16:02 pm »

Thanks...I was able to include the links to my proposed hardware.  That helps a bunch.

Thanks again,

M.

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Users / Hardware that I would like opinions on.

« on: January 11, 2011, 08:15:04 pm »

I am reposting this now that I can put links to the hardware.

Thanks Uplink!!!  

I am thinking of buying the following hardware to build a hybrid core.  This will eventually be moved into a core only position with media directors when I can buy more hardware.  I am limited on what video cards I can use as my entertainment system is based on component video.  I can upgrade later.

MB -- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0314336
Proc -- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0314336
GPU -- http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0310468
Memory -- 4 or more GB of DDR2-1066

Thanks,

M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 07:43:20 pm »

I logged out and then back in.  I get the same error when I try to preview or post.

It doesn't seem to matter if I use "http" or "hxxp" or whatever. I tried it with and without the using the "Insert Hyperlink" button in the editor.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 07:39:39 pm »

Will do...I will let you know what happens.

Thanks,

M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 07:32:12 pm »

It still says that I am not allowed to post links.



M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 07:27:36 pm »

Thank you.  I will try again.

M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 06:43:59 pm »

The editor tells me this when I try to post:

The following error or errors occurred while posting this message:
Sorry, you are not allowed to post links.

Any advice?

M.

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 06:41:05 pm »

That's interesting.  I have 35 posts but it wouldn't let me post any links.  No matter what I tried to do to hide it, it kept telling me that it wasn't allowed.  Was I doing something wrong?

Do I have to use the "Insert Hyperlink" button in the editor?

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Users / Re: Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 04:47:05 pm »

Thank you for the clarification.

M.

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Users / Posting Links -- I'm looking for a clarification.

« on: January 11, 2011, 03:44:32 pm »

I was getting ready to post a question about some computer components that I would like some opinions on.  I included links in the post but the system kicked it back.  Obviously, I could change the links to hxxp://yada.yada/yada.  But I didn't want to get yelled at by breaking a rule.  So, if I want to put a link to something that I want an option on, and if I am not selling or advertising anything, is that Okay?  Or do I have to just cut and past the specs which would make for a very long post.

Thanks,

M.

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Users / Re: *WARNING* IMPORTANT MESSAGE for all people using "free email" accounts.

« on: January 09, 2011, 05:12:20 am »

Thank you.

M.

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Users / Re: ebook?

« on: January 08, 2011, 11:27:45 pm »

Is that all there is to it? 

I had no idea it was that simple. 

Seriously, I wish that I had even half of the abilities the the Developers and other contributors.  Hopefully, within the next month or so, I will start building my own system and then I will start to speak in the language of the Dev's.  Right now, it's all just Greek to me.

M.

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Users / Re: Hardware Recommendations

« on: January 08, 2011, 03:41:21 am »

No, I am not dead set on a server MB.  Thom mentioned it so I thought it was worth looking into.  I completely respect Thom's opinion but when I noticed that I wasn't finding a server MB that didn't have an onboard GPU, I started backing away from them.  This was based on my experience with my MSI G62-75221X4-Q13.  That is the MB in my MythTV.  In the advanced BIOS features of the utility, it has "Primary Graphic's Adapter".  It doesn't even list in the book what the options are or what they do.  It's not a great resource.  I think that I will go with a full ATX Asus or gigabit w/o onboard graphics.  Does LMCE support nVidia VDPAU?  I know that Linux and MythTV do.

I'm still looking for advice on the SiliconDust vs Hauppauge vs pcHDTV capture devices.  Any thoughts?

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Users / Re: Hardware Recommendations

« on: January 08, 2011, 02:35:19 am »

That surprises me; I thought you could disable onboard graphics completely and just tell it to "look" at the PCIe slot or whatever and that was that. Are you sure it was properly disabled?

Sorry, you said you had an issue building your MythTV, but then you said it worked fine with Myth and caused problems with LMCE - could you clarify please?

Sorry about the confusion.  I had memory problems with setting up my MythTV.  It was a Hauppauge issue when you installed the latest nVidia drivers and also tried to get component out.  I had to edit the grub to reaollocate memory on boot up so the the nVidia drivers had room to load.  Once I fixed that in Myth, it was fine.  That was the only real issue but it was well documented.

The LMCE issue was because the onboard Intel GPU wasn't cutting it, when I looked in the BIOS to try to bypass it, it only allowed me to put the onboard as a secondary priority and not disable it completely.  This particular problem didn't seem to cause an issue with MythTV but LMCE didn't like it.  I even connected a monitor to both outputs just to see what it was doing.  If the onboard GPU was set to the primary, it would install and load just fine.  I just had perfomance issues with HD and the nVidia card had no output at all.  If I set the nVidia card as the primary, then I would get to the video wizard and and it would just hang.  I couldn't seem to get it to show on the screen.  I know that there are instructions for hitting the right keys in the right order to get a screen to show up but they didn't seem to work.  I could dig through my docs and find the MB model and also tell you what it says about the video options for the BIOS.

M.