Comments on: MicroATX boards for a MythTV HTPC http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/ A former physicist tries to make sense of technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:42:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Marko http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-4302 Marko Tue, 15 May 2007 11:32:26 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-4302 Asus M2NPV-VM does have digital audio out. There's just a header for that. The suitable backplate needs to be purchaced separately. This backplate has coaxial and optical audio out. Asus M2NPV-VM does have digital audio out. There’s just a header for that. The suitable backplate needs to be purchaced separately. This backplate has coaxial and optical audio out.

]]> By: Lee http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-220 Lee Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:02:44 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-220 Avoid the DFI RS482 Infinity if you want SPDIF sound. As it is now you'll have to manually patch your kernel to get the analog sound working. I can't seem to get SPIDF working no matter what I do though. I think I am going to switch to that ABIT board soon. Avoid the DFI RS482 Infinity if you want SPDIF sound. As it is now you’ll have to manually patch your kernel to get the analog sound working. I can’t seem to get SPIDF working no matter what I do though. I think I am going to switch to that ABIT board soon.

]]> By: matthew http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-186 matthew Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:50:22 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-186 I selected the DFI RS482 Infinity for my Asterisk system, because I wanted to use an AMD Turion CPU, and it was the only board that supported Cool'n'Quiet with the Turion. I've had a lot of problems getting the ATI chipset to work well under Gentoo, so maybe it's just that the Radeon support is better worked out with the Fedora distribution. I selected the DFI RS482 Infinity for my Asterisk system, because I wanted to use an AMD Turion CPU, and it was the only board that supported Cool’n'Quiet with the Turion. I’ve had a lot of problems getting the ATI chipset to work well under Gentoo, so maybe it’s just that the Radeon support is better worked out with the Fedora distribution.

]]> By: P Kuronen http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-185 P Kuronen Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:20:30 +0000 http://blog.matthewgast.com/2006/12/29/microatx-for-mythtv/#comment-185 DFI RS482 Infinity's ATI graphics chipset is a risk with MythTV? I have a MythTV box connected to projector with DVI-D - HDMI cable. At first I used nVidia Geforce display adapter and had to do a lot of work to get picture and output settings correct. When the nVidia card got broken I decided to try out my ATI Radeon (8500 maybe.. dont remember anymore) since it had DVI-D and surprise! It went just like that, Xorg autodetected the display modes from my projector and I did zero work to get it going. The standard Fedora radeon driver worked like a charm and the picture quality is far better than the terrible flaky pictures of factory set-top digiboxes I've encountered so far. So based on this I definately recommend ATI Radeon based display cards for HTPC usage, just don't go for the latest models. They are of no use in HTPC since even my old Radeon handles MythTV's OpenGL effects nicely. DFI RS482 Infinity’s ATI graphics chipset is a risk with MythTV?

I have a MythTV box connected to projector with DVI-D - HDMI cable. At first I used nVidia Geforce display adapter and had to do a lot of work to get picture and output settings correct. When the nVidia card got broken I decided to try out my ATI Radeon (8500 maybe.. dont remember anymore) since it had DVI-D and surprise! It went just like that, Xorg autodetected the display modes from my projector and I did zero work to get it going. The standard Fedora radeon driver worked like a charm and the picture quality is far better than the terrible flaky pictures of factory set-top digiboxes I’ve encountered so far. So based on this I definately recommend ATI Radeon based display cards for HTPC usage, just don’t go for the latest models. They are of no use in HTPC since even my old Radeon handles MythTV’s OpenGL effects nicely.

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