well it depends on how much wattage, look how well the brick is doing for the power hungry xbox 360;)
I don't think you'll be saving money though... What *IS* your power supply budget there are quiet, or quieter power supplies that are good and quiet (or with a little ingenuity and bravery can be made quieter -- especially if the draw is low ) that aren't *that* much... Yes the totally passive/fanless ones are pricey.
I did a review of a casetronics c137 case with a via epia m10k mobo and it had a brick power supply (although there still was some power supply guts in the case and still had a fan!)
besides that it's PCIe, is that it finally has hardware MPEG2 encoding...
Although I think I'd still prefer to get a regular PCIe 16x video card and a separate pci-e 1x ATI power color theater 550 instead of a smooshed allintowonder... but that's just my personal preference (from previous experience)
The other important thing is that other 3rd party software pick up and support the card, otherwise you're stuck with the included - blech - software... IMHO
you'd pick up a pvr150/250/500 for the tivo/TV recording end of things, and on the linux front I think an agp Nvidia 6600 would be nice, if you have budget restraints an Nvidia FX 5200 would be a cheap bottom end card to shlop in there.
You didn't mention if you'd be hooking it up to a TV (and if it woudl be a SDTV or HDTV) so that's a very general recommendation...
Although I strongly suggest to anyone rolling their own PVR to get a dedicated standalone hardware encoding tuner card... The previous poster could get some more mileage out of his 9600AIW with better 3rd party PVR software like BeyondTV.
You might also try Media Portal (and open source windows alternative that's based/forked from the XBox Media Center project)
I hope tivo get's their act together and get's their cablecard HD box out of vaporware soon and beats M$ to the punch.
It'll be interesting to see if 3rd party software applications will be able to interface with the cablecard so taht you won't be stuck with using MCE 200x as your PVR/HTPC.
well, BB post said to check back for more information (including probably some EFF automagic contact your congressperson fax form)... the legislation is just a draft and isn't introduced yet to my knowledge.
you don't understand what happened. and no IANAL, so YMMV...
The broadcast flag wasn't struck down per say... the FCC was found to not have the authority to mandate the broadcast flag, which in essence killed it.
There was no precedence set by those rulings to stop congresscritters from creating new laws that "legalize"/mandate broadcast flag or gives FCC mandate or what have you... FCC might not have the authority, but congress *does*.
In other words... we're not out of the woods yet... they just keep coming and coming with this crap.
clue stick: how do you think the tivo get's it's signal from the digital cable box? it's via analog (coax/svideo/composite)... If there was no "analog loophole" you'd only be able to use the cable company's DVR with your digital cable service.
I've seen other grumblings (although from blog-type sources so take it for what it's worth) that it seems likely that google would consider trying it's hand at traditional TV advertising brokering using what they learned from Adwords/Adsense.
Madison avenue isn't shaking in it's boots just yet, but could be interesting if they figure out a way to sell advertising traditionally more efficiently AND make money doing it. (or if there's some 3rd option that puts the whole industry on it's ear) *shrug*
"Go talk to your cable company and get them to provide you with an HD box, specifically the Motorola DCT6200. It has a FireWire port on the back of the box. It can be connected to your Mac and with one simple application (iRecord) you're able to record television to your hard drive with less compression (AFAICT) than a TiVo.
My favorite part: there is no DRM."
This is true to a point... BUT no DRM, you must not have come up against any 5c flagged material on your cable box. Try firewiring some Pay Per View or HBO some time. If the firewire 5c flag is not set to 0 you can't pull it over firewire. (even if it is set to copy once, it can't which is odd)
Still a cool alernative making use of existing devices. I wouldn't be surprised if TVHarmony adds a plugin (albeit on the windoze side, for now) to pull from firwire cable boxes -- or not... *shrug*
well replayTV has always been easier / more straightforward for doing this sort of thing... which is kinda how it got sue to brink of non-existance/relevence.
I kinda wish I bought a replaytv instead of a tivo back in the day =(
unless i'm mistaken... there's kinda a neat common sense approach to "DRM" at work here. They take out the annoying/retarded.tivo DRM and make a standard mpeg2 (or whatever utility you use, i.e. psp/ipod/etc) BUT they embed your tivo MAK # as a small watermark. So you'll be less likely to spread your drm-less file all over the interweb, so to speak as it has some identifiable info on it (at least somwhere in a tivo database somewhere)
I may be mistaken though, that's how it works with tivo2mpeg, i don't have a video ipod or played with the utily for the sake of spitting out quicktime;)
I know the video ipod is the new hotness, but it should be noted that this will easily / automagically pull content from your tivo2go network connected TiVo and spit out PSP format video for you in batch jobs...
you can use a regular pvr250 (generally) with XP MCE 2005 but you'll need to get the MCE specific drivers
Part of the issue here is... if you have and HDTV why are you running svideo to it? SHould you be running DVI or component to it?
With that card and gbpvr you probably should have switched your video rendering mode from VMR9 to overlay. Also what video decoder you have installed has a big effect on PQ and smoothness...
I think if you went with even a slightly higher card (like a 5200 fx)you'd be in much better shape... If you could swing a nvidia 6x00 and a pure video decoder (and connect your pc to your tv via an HDTV connection method) you'll be able to upscale/deinterlace the content much better imho. *shrug*
This isn't a "Review" of MCE 2005... It's meant to be more commentary and cautionary tale than strict HOWTO or review... it's meant to be entertaining!
If everything went right it wouldn't make for much of an article... you don't see "Man Succesfully installed Office 2003" articles much;) Obviously the author didn't do everything right and had some trials and things could have been approached differently to make it a little easier on himself, BUT regardless the man thesis of the article is that this MCE 2005 PC in the living room is way too hard/clunky/painful than it needed to be.
If Duke's up to it, I'd like to have him try a 3rd party application and see if he fairs better (like beyondtv4 or SageTV 3).
If you're thinking "hey that review sucked", the "reviewer is an idiot", or "nuh-uh MCE 2005 is the roxors"...you missed the point.
My whole contention was that if Duke had been a member/participant of byopvr and the byopvr forums we could have saved him a lot of pain and suffering... but then we wouldn't have had an entertaining article come out of it.
Besides with the dearth of sycophant "review" (and again this wasn't even a review) out there on the web... having a little bashing and teeth gnashing can't be a bad thing, can it?
did you see the Call of Duty 2 pre-release demo runing on the xbox 360 *whistles* I wasn't gonna jump on the xbox360 (right away) but it's clearly taunting me.
""If you are a web "programmer", it's definitely nice to have well-built tools that let you think even less about what you are doing and come up with something useful."
>>Don't know about you, but it sounds dangerous to me."
Well depending on what the previous poster meant.
If they meant, I should be able to just randomly code without any cohesive thinking about where i'm going or what effects my coding decisions make... yeah that doesn't sound too good.
If they meant, having tools that mean you think about what you are doing but don't have to get myried in the details/idosyncracies/drudfery and just think about functionality... that sounds fun.. kinda reminds me conceptually of the whole Ruby on Rails type thinking/approach.
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Although tivo is notorious for their slow rollouts. I'm pretty sure they "announced" Tivo2Go at the 1999 CES (I kid, I kid)
e.
well it depends on how much wattage, look how well the brick is doing for the power hungry xbox 360 ;)
I don't think you'll be saving money though... What *IS* your power supply budget there are quiet, or quieter power supplies that are good and quiet (or with a little ingenuity and bravery can be made quieter -- especially if the draw is low ) that aren't *that* much... Yes the totally passive/fanless ones are pricey.
I did a review of a casetronics c137 case with a via epia m10k mobo and it had a brick power supply (although there still was some power supply guts in the case and still had a fan!)
*shrug*
e.
besides that it's PCIe, is that it finally has hardware MPEG2 encoding...
Although I think I'd still prefer to get a regular PCIe 16x video card and a separate pci-e 1x ATI power color theater 550 instead of a smooshed allintowonder... but that's just my personal preference (from previous experience)
The other important thing is that other 3rd party software pick up and support the card, otherwise you're stuck with the included - blech - software... IMHO
E.
you'd pick up a pvr150/250/500 for the tivo/TV recording end of things, and on the linux front I think an agp Nvidia 6600 would be nice, if you have budget restraints an Nvidia FX 5200 would be a cheap bottom end card to shlop in there.
You didn't mention if you'd be hooking it up to a TV (and if it woudl be a SDTV or HDTV) so that's a very general recommendation...
e.
Although I strongly suggest to anyone rolling their own PVR to get a dedicated standalone hardware encoding tuner card... The previous poster could get some more mileage out of his 9600AIW with better 3rd party PVR software like BeyondTV.
You might also try Media Portal (and open source windows alternative that's based/forked from the XBox Media Center project)
e.
I'd definitely buy one if there was a domestic re-release.
My Samba Da Amigo morracas are lonely since my dreamcast drive started to give up the ghost...
e.
here
via this BoingBoing post
*snort* when will they learn...
*sigh* an AIW? really? *sigh*
I think a gigabyte passive/heat pipe non-GT 6600 would have been a better choice.
If we're heat/stress testing this puppy add one of those ATI theater pro 550's tuner cards.
I dunno there's some good info/insight about the cases they used, but somehow i'm left dissapointed with the "shoot out" *shrug*
e.
I hope tivo get's their act together and get's their cablecard HD box out of vaporware soon and beats M$ to the punch.
It'll be interesting to see if 3rd party software applications will be able to interface with the cablecard so taht you won't be stuck with using MCE 200x as your PVR/HTPC.
e.
well, BB post said to check back for more information (including probably some EFF automagic contact your congressperson fax form)... the legislation is just a draft and isn't introduced yet to my knowledge.
E.
you don't understand what happened. and no IANAL, so YMMV...
The broadcast flag wasn't struck down per say... the FCC was found to not have the authority to mandate the broadcast flag, which in essence killed it.
There was no precedence set by those rulings to stop congresscritters from creating new laws that "legalize"/mandate broadcast flag or gives FCC mandate or what have you... FCC might not have the authority, but congress *does*.
In other words... we're not out of the woods yet... they just keep coming and coming with this crap.
e.
clue stick: how do you think the tivo get's it's signal from the digital cable box? it's via analog (coax/svideo/composite)... If there was no "analog loophole" you'd only be able to use the cable company's DVR with your digital cable service.
e.
I've seen other grumblings (although from blog-type sources so take it for what it's worth) that it seems likely that google would consider trying it's hand at traditional TV advertising brokering using what they learned from Adwords/Adsense.
Madison avenue isn't shaking in it's boots just yet, but could be interesting if they figure out a way to sell advertising traditionally more efficiently AND make money doing it. (or if there's some 3rd option that puts the whole industry on it's ear) *shrug*
"Go talk to your cable company and get them to provide you with an HD box, specifically the Motorola DCT6200. It has a FireWire port on the back of the box. It can be connected to your Mac and with one simple application (iRecord) you're able to record television to your hard drive with less compression (AFAICT) than a TiVo.
My favorite part: there is no DRM."
This is true to a point... BUT no DRM, you must not have come up against any 5c flagged material on your cable box. Try firewiring some Pay Per View or HBO some time. If the firewire 5c flag is not set to 0 you can't pull it over firewire. (even if it is set to copy once, it can't which is odd)
Still a cool alernative making use of existing devices. I wouldn't be surprised if TVHarmony adds a plugin (albeit on the windoze side, for now) to pull from firwire cable boxes -- or not... *shrug*
e.
well replayTV has always been easier / more straightforward for doing this sort of thing... which is kinda how it got sue to brink of non-existance/relevence.
I kinda wish I bought a replaytv instead of a tivo back in the day =(
e.
" Lower down on the page in the change log:
Moved MAK from watermark into invisibly encoded MAK directly into file. "
Cool! I've got to get the new version!
e.
unless i'm mistaken... there's kinda a neat common sense approach to "DRM" at work here. They take out the annoying/retarded .tivo DRM and make a standard mpeg2 (or whatever utility you use, i.e. psp/ipod/etc) BUT they embed your tivo MAK # as a small watermark. So you'll be less likely to spread your drm-less file all over the interweb, so to speak as it has some identifiable info on it (at least somwhere in a tivo database somewhere)
;)
I may be mistaken though, that's how it works with tivo2mpeg, i don't have a video ipod or played with the utily for the sake of spitting out quicktime
I know the video ipod is the new hotness, but it should be noted that this will easily / automagically pull content from your tivo2go network connected TiVo and spit out PSP format video for you in batch jobs...
E.
you can use a regular pvr250 (generally) with XP MCE 2005 but you'll need to get the MCE specific drivers
Part of the issue here is... if you have and HDTV why are you running svideo to it? SHould you be running DVI or component to it?
With that card and gbpvr you probably should have switched your video rendering mode from VMR9 to overlay. Also what video decoder you have installed has a big effect on PQ and smoothness...
I think if you went with even a slightly higher card (like a 5200 fx)you'd be in much better shape... If you could swing a nvidia 6x00 and a pure video decoder (and connect your pc to your tv via an HDTV connection method) you'll be able to upscale/deinterlace the content much better imho. *shrug*
This isn't a "Review" of MCE 2005... It's meant to be more commentary and cautionary tale than strict HOWTO or review... it's meant to be entertaining!
;) Obviously the author didn't do everything right and had some trials and things could have been approached differently to make it a little easier on himself, BUT regardless the man thesis of the article is that this MCE 2005 PC in the living room is way too hard/clunky/painful than it needed to be.
If everything went right it wouldn't make for much of an article... you don't see
"Man Succesfully installed Office 2003" articles much
If Duke's up to it, I'd like to have him try a 3rd party application and see if he fairs better (like beyondtv4 or SageTV 3).
If you're thinking "hey that review sucked", the "reviewer is an idiot", or "nuh-uh MCE 2005 is the roxors"...you missed the point.
My whole contention was that if Duke had been a member/participant of byopvr and the byopvr forums we could have saved him a lot of pain and suffering... but then we wouldn't have had an entertaining article come out of it.
Besides with the dearth of sycophant "review" (and again this wasn't even a review) out there on the web... having a little bashing and teeth gnashing can't be a bad thing, can it?
e.
you did allright untill you added the AIW klunker in there.
for the love of god keep your video card and TV tuner separate, unless you want to overpay for having mediocre capabilities in both!
rampy
did you see the Call of Duty 2 pre-release demo runing on the xbox 360 *whistles* I wasn't gonna jump on the xbox360 (right away) but it's clearly taunting me.
e.
what do you know...
http://cancer.google.com/ resolves! (no i'm kidding, don't bother)
""If you are a web "programmer", it's definitely nice to have well-built tools that let you think even less about what you are doing and come up with something useful."
>>Don't know about you, but it sounds dangerous to me."
Well depending on what the previous poster meant.
If they meant, I should be able to just randomly code without any cohesive thinking about where i'm going or what effects my coding decisions make... yeah that doesn't sound too good.
If they meant, having tools that mean you think about what you are doing but don't have to get myried in the details/idosyncracies/drudfery and just think about functionality... that sounds fun.. kinda reminds me conceptually of the whole Ruby on Rails type thinking/approach.