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<blockquote data-quote="wwwoholic" data-source="post: 384769" data-attributes="member: 89072">I am building my first MP PC using spare parts from old computers. So, it is relatively low-power setup with P4 2.6.The only required functionality is to capture non-HD S-Video + PCM audio from my satellite box onto local drive or file server (over Gigabit network), and to play it back using either mapped drive or uPnP AV streaming.It is so happens that my capture hardware choices are limited to:- ATI TV Wonder HD 650 based cards (by Visiontek, Diamond or ATI)- Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600- Hauppauge HD-PVRHD-PVR seems like no-brainer choice without all those tuners and with HD support for future upgrades. However its system requirements are quite high. So, the questions:- Does HD-PVR really need fast PC, or they list it only for playback mode? Because if it is only for playback I can always re-code captured H.264 file into MPEG2 and that can be played on even slower PC than mine.- If HD-PVR is not an option for current setup then which one of the other two cards is better for video-only HTPC?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wwwoholic, post: 384769, member: 89072"] I am building my first MP PC using spare parts from old computers. So, it is relatively low-power setup with P4 2.6. The only required functionality is to capture non-HD S-Video + PCM audio from my satellite box onto local drive or file server (over Gigabit network), and to play it back using either mapped drive or uPnP AV streaming. It is so happens that my capture hardware choices are limited to: - ATI TV Wonder HD 650 based cards (by Visiontek, Diamond or ATI) - Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 - Hauppauge HD-PVR HD-PVR seems like no-brainer choice without all those tuners and with HD support for future upgrades. However its system requirements are quite high. So, the questions: - Does HD-PVR really need fast PC, or they list it only for playback mode? Because if it is only for playback I can always re-code captured H.264 file into MPEG2 and that can be played on even slower PC than mine. - If HD-PVR is not an option for current setup then which one of the other two cards is better for video-only HTPC? [/QUOTE]

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