[sllug-members]: MythTV setup Qs

[Brandon Beattie]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:12:38AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:44:59AM -0600, Marc Christensen wrote:
> > 
> > I have two pchdtv cards and one older analog Hauppauge tunner.  The 
> > computer is an AMD 3500+ w/1GB ram.  2 x 250GB ATA HDs and 2 x 80GB. 
> > Graphic card is an Nvidia 5500LE.
> 
> Wow, nice. How much disk space does an HD stream use per second on normal
> quality? 

Normal depends on the station.  HD is either 14Mb/s or 19Mb/s
720p/1080i.  480p is about 5Mb/s.  Hour shows range from 1GB to 4GB, and
each show is different depending on how much black, motion, etc.  I've
had some 1080i's at 1.5GB's and others at 4.5GB's.

> > 1) Has anyone used SuSE 10.1 for a MythTV setup?  How did you like it 
> > vs. other distros.

> Things in SuSE were too much of a pain for me, when comparing to Debian.
> Debian has good MythTV packages. Don't know about SuSE. SuSE may have some
> niceties as far as RAID and LVM goes, but I believe the latest
> debian-installer does LVM too.

Yes, downside of debian is when you finally upgrade to the next major
release everything breaks.  I use debian and agree with the "don't
touch" idea.