[vdr] Re: Newbie: Shopping list

[Gregor Lawatscheck <gpel@mpex.net>]

At 22:27 10/03/2003, you wrote:
> Hi
> I am not a techie, but after a month on this list
> I decided to take a plunge.
> Are these things below OK? (technically and priceweise)
>
> 1° AMD 1400+, 350w Netzteil, 128 MB SDRAM, K7SOM        120,-
>                 (eBay, allready got it)
> 2° DeskStar120GXP,7200rpm,UDMA/100,2MB,120GB            135,-
>                 (www.mindfactory.de)
> 3° WinDVB-S 1.6,Remotecontrol,TV-Cable                  201,-
>                 (www.usa-x.org)
>    (I wanted Siemens card, but its not there,
>                 does it matter?)
> 4° Gibertini Antenne 100cm,ALU,Masthalterung            66,-
>
> 5° Quattro-Switch LNBGolden Interstar 0.3 dB            77,-
>    (both from http://www.hm-sat.de/ plus 5,-pp)
>                                                                         _____
>                                                                         604,-
- Sounds good to me. Obviously something like a 500 Mhz system would do 
nicely as well: Still enough power to transcode the odd recording, less 
power consumption, noise etc. But if you're up for "wasting" a 1400+ on a 
video solution (I'm guessing you're not indending to use this as your 
desktop system at the same time) then that's your decision I guess. Well ok 
and I forgot, that spec will probably allow you to play realtime transcoded 
divx -> mpeg2 through the DVB card, maybe that's what you were looking for.

- Harddisks: I don't trust IBM an inch anymore when it comes to HDDs, but 
ok supposedly they've improved quality with the newest drives -- we shall 
see -- in about half a year, when it gets to critical stage again :). 7200 
rpm again is overkill in my view, in terms of speed and noise but it's 
certainly a good price [and to be honest I haven't seen 120 GB drives at 
5400 either heh]. I'd personally opt for Seagate or Maxtor, but then that's 
just me.

- WinDVB-S 1.6: Haven't heard anything bad about this one. Runs cooler than 
the 1.3 I've read. It doesn't matter that it's not Siemens -- people just 
like to support them by buying their cards if they can for helping the open 
source cause.

> In meantime trying to teach myself Linux...
> RH8.0 - what packages do I need to install?
Base / Medium install will do.

> If I need compiling my own kernel (my heart
> sinks while I am typing this) - is there
> step-by-step instruction somewhere?
Yea. Google is your friend: HOWTO Kernel compile
I personally prefer Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org (has very good docu) or 
Debian http://www.debian.org -- but I do admit both of these aren't "newbie 
distros". The learning curve is steep though -- and there's nothign better 
than that :).



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