[Cialug] media center

[Nathan C. Smith]

If you build your own, HD probably means some encrypted channels, so you may something that supports cablecard or an alternate means to grab video, and your machine will have to have more CPU.

My HDhomerun didn't work well for me initially because I didn't get many HD stations and the digital stations I got were HD and the CPU was too anemic to process them.  Now Mediacom seems to be re-broadcasting the whole analog line-up in Digital which may change the story some.  My machine may still be to anemic to encode those streams thought.  The Hauppauge cards to a great job of encoding on the fly in hardware.

-Nate

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Nuzum
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:59 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] media center

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com<mailto:nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>> wrote:
The new DRM techniques and other quasi limitations like digital television and cable-card make whole house systems like you want either legally challenging or very expensive.

However,  I use MythTV  (knoppmyth) and along with some DVD-archiving hacks I've been pretty happy with it.  Also Silicon Dust has announced an HDHomerun with CableCard Support.  If you can't live without Digital or HD TV that may be an excellent way to get it.


Hi, if choosing mediacom I would probably get the family package (which seems to be lower-end than the "digital cable" package) and add the HD option. Does this affect anything?

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