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mdrons at yahoo

Oct 24, 2008, 6:51 PM

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motherboard recommendation?

I am looking to replace my motherboard/cpu.

it will be a fiontend/backend
PVR250 installed
PVR500 installed
IEEE1394 for comcast connection
SATA support
play/record from hd homerun
connect to plasma tv for hd & sd playback
need spdif optical out
prefer hdmi out (for video transport only)

Thanks, mike

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Oct 24, 2008, 9:18 PM

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Re: motherboard recommendation? [In reply to]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Michael Drons
>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:51 PM
>To: mythtv-users [at] mythtv
>Subject: [mythtv-users] motherboard recommendation?
>
>
>I am looking to replace my motherboard/cpu.
>
>it will be a fiontend/backend
>PVR250 installed
>PVR500 installed
>IEEE1394 for comcast connection
>SATA support
>play/record from hd homerun
>connect to plasma tv for hd & sd playback
>need spdif optical out
>prefer hdmi out (for video transport only)
>
>Thanks, mike
>

If I had it to do over, I would probably pick a motherboard based number of
PCI/e slots because:

1. No telling how long till Alsa recognizes these new mbs with spdif.
At least this is the feeling I get from the 30+ hours of googling:(
2. DVI (with a dvi->hdmi converter $20) is the same except without sound
so hdmi is not really needed if you plan on using spdif to a stereo.
I listen to all my tv through my stereo.
3. I would also look for a video where the manufacturer/drivers
support overscan adjustment on the pc side.

I just got an ASUS M3N78-VM with optical spdif out and Nvidia onboard hdmi.

No 1394 as far as I can see in the manual.

Eth Port only works on Mythdora 5.0 ISO after yumming up through an added
Linksys eth card.

I just ordered a Turtle Beach Riviera sound card cause I can't for the life
of me get the spdif optical working.

The hdmi works fine except my TV overscans soo bad that you can't see about
15-20% of the Linux desktop and it doesn't sound like it is fixable from the
pc side. Myth can "shrink" itself so as a PVR, this is workable. Alsa
didn't show any sound for the HDMI port until I installed the very latest
"development" version and compiled from source. Have not tried it since
compiling as all my sound goes through a Sony receiver.

Probably doesn't help much though:(
Shanon

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james at ultratans

Oct 27, 2008, 5:36 AM

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Re: motherboard recommendation? [In reply to]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 23:18 -0500, Shanon Swafford wrote:

> I just got an ASUS M3N78-VM with optical spdif out and Nvidia onboard hdmi.
>
> No 1394 as far as I can see in the manual.
>
<snip>
> The hdmi works fine except my TV overscans soo bad that you can't see about
> 15-20% of the Linux desktop and it doesn't sound like it is fixable from the
> pc side. Myth can "shrink" itself so as a PVR, this is workable. Alsa
> didn't show any sound for the HDMI port until I installed the very latest
> "development" version and compiled from source. Have not tried it since
> compiling as all my sound goes through a Sony receiver.
>
> Probably doesn't help much though:(
> Shanon
>

Shanon,

What video driver are you using with this board? I also purchased one
of these and the onboard GeForce 8200 has such spectacularly bad 2d
video it can not display a presentation on a 720P display without
terrible stuttering. I am using Ubuntu 8.10 with the 177.?? (80 I think)
nvidia driver.

I ended up throwing a 7200GS PCI-E card in it just to get decent 720P.

Thanks,
James

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Oct 27, 2008, 8:01 AM

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Re: motherboard recommendation? [In reply to]

I got the M3A and installed a video card. The M3A has the spdif out. In my
case, I wanted SVideo out as well so that pretty well ruled out onboard
video.
Asus makes most of the MBs for all the big PC makers so is a good way to go.

They make a version of this board that may fit your needs:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131289

This is an ATX board, which is what I wanted. If you want a smaller board,
do a search.

Allen

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Michael Drons <mdrons [at] yahoo> wrote:

> I am looking to replace my motherboard/cpu.
>
> it will be a fiontend/backend
> PVR250 installed
> PVR500 installed
> IEEE1394 for comcast connection
> SATA support
> play/record from hd homerun
> connect to plasma tv for hd & sd playback
> need spdif optical out
> prefer hdmi out (for video transport only)
>
> Thanks, mike
>
>
>
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florin at andrei

Oct 31, 2008, 4:54 PM

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Re: motherboard recommendation? [In reply to]

Michael Drons wrote:
> I am looking to replace my motherboard/cpu.
>
> it will be a fiontend/backend
> PVR250 installed
> PVR500 installed
> IEEE1394 for comcast connection
> SATA support
> play/record from hd homerun
> connect to plasma tv for hd & sd playback
> need spdif optical out
> prefer hdmi out (for video transport only)

Just search here:

http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=20&name=Motherboards

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Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/
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