2009-01-29, 07:22 PM
Hi all...
After getting frustrated some months ago and tossing my HTPC project under the workbench I've recently pulled it out, dusted it off and decided to have another crack at it with GBPVR.
My HTPC project system specs as of today are...
Silverstone Lascala LC20B case with iMon VFD & remote
Abit AV8 S939 mainboard
AMD Opteron 148 2.2ghz cpu
2 gigs ddr 400
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256meg
Sapphire\ATI Theater 650 Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi xTreme music
TI PCI firewire card for my mini DV cams
2x WD800JD in RAID 0 for OS\programs
1x WD1600JB for recording
1x WD10EACS in a USB enclosure for added media storage\portability
1x LG Super Multi DVD RW
32 bit Vista Home Premium OEM with SP1 and all current updates
So as I said I messed around with this project some months ago with the only difference being that at that time I had an ATI TV Wonder PCI and a Digiwave 103g installed and I could not for the life of me get those 2 cards to play nice. I tried XP & Vista with GBPVR, various Linux distros with and without MythTV etc etc with no reasonable success. I did manage to get the 103g working ok with XP and My Theater plus the TV Wonder worked well with ATI's software but that's not what I wanted, I wanted to use a media center type application that does it all like GBPVR or MythTV! So okay I traded off the 103g months ago for a set of speakers, I sold the TV Wonder PCI at our yard sale in the summer and just yesterday I bought a Sapphire\ATI Theater 650 Pro which right now is working fantastic with Vista and GBPVR tuning in 60 some odd cable channels. So now my dilemma is what would be a good choice for a DVB-S card that will play nice with Vista, GBPVR and the ATI 650 Pro? Locally I have 3 choices of DVB-S card that I can run out and buy right now and they are the Digiwave 103g, Digiwave 202g DVB-S2 and the Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-S-Plus. Other than buying local I see on ebay many Vision Plus 1020A cards, plenty Digiwave 103g's selling for more than the price is locally and many others that I can't really figure out who the manufacturer is. I've also been looking at the Prof Tuners 6200 Red Series DVB-S PCI card as it appears to be very well support by the manufacturer and DVB Dream although I don't see it listed at the GBPVR wiki.
Comments or thoughts would be very much appreciated :o
After getting frustrated some months ago and tossing my HTPC project under the workbench I've recently pulled it out, dusted it off and decided to have another crack at it with GBPVR.
My HTPC project system specs as of today are...
Silverstone Lascala LC20B case with iMon VFD & remote
Abit AV8 S939 mainboard
AMD Opteron 148 2.2ghz cpu
2 gigs ddr 400
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256meg
Sapphire\ATI Theater 650 Pro
Sound Blaster X-Fi xTreme music
TI PCI firewire card for my mini DV cams
2x WD800JD in RAID 0 for OS\programs
1x WD1600JB for recording
1x WD10EACS in a USB enclosure for added media storage\portability
1x LG Super Multi DVD RW
32 bit Vista Home Premium OEM with SP1 and all current updates
So as I said I messed around with this project some months ago with the only difference being that at that time I had an ATI TV Wonder PCI and a Digiwave 103g installed and I could not for the life of me get those 2 cards to play nice. I tried XP & Vista with GBPVR, various Linux distros with and without MythTV etc etc with no reasonable success. I did manage to get the 103g working ok with XP and My Theater plus the TV Wonder worked well with ATI's software but that's not what I wanted, I wanted to use a media center type application that does it all like GBPVR or MythTV! So okay I traded off the 103g months ago for a set of speakers, I sold the TV Wonder PCI at our yard sale in the summer and just yesterday I bought a Sapphire\ATI Theater 650 Pro which right now is working fantastic with Vista and GBPVR tuning in 60 some odd cable channels. So now my dilemma is what would be a good choice for a DVB-S card that will play nice with Vista, GBPVR and the ATI 650 Pro? Locally I have 3 choices of DVB-S card that I can run out and buy right now and they are the Digiwave 103g, Digiwave 202g DVB-S2 and the Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-S-Plus. Other than buying local I see on ebay many Vision Plus 1020A cards, plenty Digiwave 103g's selling for more than the price is locally and many others that I can't really figure out who the manufacturer is. I've also been looking at the Prof Tuners 6200 Red Series DVB-S PCI card as it appears to be very well support by the manufacturer and DVB Dream although I don't see it listed at the GBPVR wiki.
Comments or thoughts would be very much appreciated :o