Help me, im a noob!

[gam3r]

Hi folks first post!

Thanks for having me..

Down to business:

Right, i have this PC sitting doing nothing :

750MHz P3
512MB ram
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB graphics card with s-video out

And i got a tv tuner card coming through which i bought second hand.. hauppauge 56105.


Is this System ok to run GBPVR?

Ok secondly, what i want to do is take this box and connect it up to my main TV through S-Video without using a monitor just my TV screen. Is that ok?

What will i be able to do? Wil i be able to see my sky channels or just analogue? How would i go about doing all this.

As you can see. I'm the big cheese noobi when it comes to HTPC's.

Thanks alot folks!

[sub]

Sorry, this card isnt compatible with GB-PVR.

If you're lucky, you might be able to get it working with the help of this plugin: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=2753

[Jim_]

IMHO,
The best money you’ll ever spend is buying a GBPVR supported capture card and a mediaMPV. For a small startup hardware cost you’ll end up with a customized TV experience that isn’t available anywhere else, at any price.
But be very careful using comskip at first, it takes years to build up a tolerance for watching endless, pointless, commercials, and once it’s gone it ever comes back. :eek:

[Lindsay]

Another IMHO. I think Jim is right.

[djtaylor]

gam3r, you mentioned Sky so i'm going to presume that you're in the UK.

If you want to record Sky channels then you're going to have to buy an analogue card (or maybe a DVB-S with support the sky card, don't know if you can get those easily?) and you're going to have to arrange for an infra red eye on the Sky digibox to allow for channel change.

What you might want to do is get a Hauppauge Nova-T PCI (or 2 or 3) and start with the DVB-T channels and get used to gbpvr. You can always add support for the digibox later and a Nova-T brand new is under 40 quid. I'd also recommend the Hauppauge MVP but the challenge you have is finding one as it seems that Hauppauge have let stocks run to zero while waiting to launch the new version.

David.

[HtV]

I wouldnt try this on a PIII 750mhz, Sub recommends 1 ghz as the minimum and more for every extra card or mvp. I think the recording plugin needs some extra power aswell for the encoding (could be wrong).

[gam3r]

Hi guys. Thanks alot of replying.

So the card doesn't work with GB-PVR...? Why is that?..

Yeah mate, im the the UK is was thinking of running a Aerial lead from my sky box RF out to the RF in of the TV card.

Anymore help appreciated. I don't really have anymore money as im a student and im skint as it is so i gotta try the best to get this card working. It uses a 848 chipset or something.

[sim1964]

The card shown does'nt do hardware encoding so it wont work in gbpvr but the software recorder plugin linked in an earlier post may get it working with some serious hard work and searching on your part ( no promises) have you considered Knoppmyth Linux as thias should work with your card if your budget is tight http://www.mysettopbox.tv/doc.html#autoinstall

[gam3r]

Hardware encoding...what is that? Sorry im a noob

Whats wrong with software encoding and why will it be hard..?

Thank you all so much

[fhmanas]

Hardware encoding means, your tuner would have a dedicated mpeg encoder, what this means, is that your video will encoded into mpeg by the capture card, thus not compete with your CPU. With the specs, you were intending to use, 750Mhz P3, hardware encoding is a must otherwise, your CPU will take on the job and it might not hack it, meaning drop frames, and inability to watch and record at the same time.

I agree with the others with getting GBPVR "certified" capture cards and the MediaMVP, makes it a lot easier to build your GBPVR setup. Hauppauge capture cards are the most common capture card used by GBPVR users as it is fully supported by GBPVR, no need to remap the remote and it has onboard MPEG encoding. The MediaMVP is a slick device, small, unobtrusive and silent and has its own MPEG decoder built in.

Read around the forum and find out what others use to build their HTPCs, but one thing to make sure of, is to have a large HD to store recordings, I would recommend no less than 200GB, as it fills up quickly.