Can the stripped-down Hauppage PVR150MCE be used with Freevo?

[cheesehead]

Out of curiousity, is the stripped-down Windows MCE version of the Hauppage PVR150 usable with Freevo and/or MythTV? I was hoping to build myself a HTPC, and this looks like a cheap way to do it.
http://www.pcalchemy.com/product_info.p...-oem-pn-26692/cName/pvr-cardstv-tuners
Also, what kind of system would be needed to run this? I was thinking along of a 1Ghz PIII and 256mb of RAM; I've seen people use these with 900mhz Via Epia systems, so I figure that the internal MPEG encoder does'nt need much in the way of CPU.

 

[WT]

Have you checked out GB-PVR yet ?? I toyed around with several free DVR packages and prefer BeyondTV for the $$, but ended up using GB-PVR once some of the bugs were worked out. I have the PVR150MCE card and have had no issues with it yet .. nice card and I'm tempted to buy this one at that great price.

 

[v8envy]

I'm using the hauppage 150 MCE with my Myth box. Works flawlessly. You'll have to do a bit of searching for drivers and have a pretty modern kernel, but it's painless.

The tuner is better than what's in my 32" Sylvania CRT.

As far as CPU, I'm using around 5% of my XP1600+ for recording, around 15% for playback. and around 100% for commercial tagging -- it's gotta play the video to search for blank frames. This is with hardware mpeg2 playback/scaling using a ti4200.

Note that you'll want as much cpu as you can get away with. These myth boxes have a tendency to bloat up to do lots of other things -- MAME, playback of scheduled HDTV, etc.

Oh, Myth also relies on mysql. And KDE. And the web interface requires apache. 256M may be a bit tight.

I prefer myth to the other packages simply because of features and OS integration. The windows-based PVRs just didn't do it for me.