Creating an HTPC and want to use Ubuntu 7

[GundamSonicZeroX]

I'm going to mainly be using it for emulation. I'm going to use the original game discs, I just want to save some space and have a PC. The consoles I plan to emulate are the PS1, the Dreamcast(if the PC is powerful enough. ), the Sega Saturn, and the Sega CD. I also want to emulate the SNES and NES as well as other classic consoles (ie. Genesis and Atari 2600), but that's not as much of a priority.

Thanks in advance.

 

[cleverhandle]

I tried some PSX emulation a year or so back with ePSXe, which is apparently one of the better developed emulators. But I wasn't impressed at the results. Performance was fine, but 3D games (Final Fantasy, etc.) just didn't look right. They didn't exactly look *bad* (though I did do a lot of tweaking with it), but they did look noticeably different than I remembered. And comparing them side by side with the real thing, the differences were quite obvious. I can't really recommend it, at least for the PSX stuff - the other consoles I don't know anything about.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

bumpy

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
bumpy

It's pretty darn rude to bump your post when it's the third on the page. Be patient. People on this forum read what's posted, and if they have something to offer, then they will.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: cleverhandle

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
bumpy

It's pretty darn rude to bump your post when it's the third on the page. Be patient. People on this forum read what's posted, and if they have something to offer, then they will.

Sorry, I just saw that it was two hours later and thought that it'd be on page two.
It's like that on every other forum I go to.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

EDIT: Wrong topic.
*smacks forehead*

 

[Cogman]

Emulation in general is pretty bad on PC. ZNES is you best bet for a SNES emulator don't know about the others though. Try installing the MythTV packages if you want your PC to have DVR capabilities.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Cogman
Try installing the MythTV packages if you want your PC to have DVR capabilities.

Not enough HD Space.

 

[Cogman]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX

Originally posted by: Cogman
Try installing the MythTV packages if you want your PC to have DVR capabilities.

Not enough HD Space.

FIXED! How much space do you really need? Tivo premiered at like 30 gb and that was several hours of recording. now your looking at ~$40 for 160 GB.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Cogman

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX

Originally posted by: Cogman
Try installing the MythTV packages if you want your PC to have DVR capabilities.

Not enough HD Space.

FIXED! How much space do you really need? Tivo premiered at like 30 gb and that was several hours of recording. now your looking at ~$40 for 160 GB.

Really? Hmm, might consider getting another HD when I get this puppy running. I only have a 30 gig right now, (I think it might be less) and I'd like to have the option of keeping the .isos on the HD for whatever reason. (ie. if the originals get lost, stolen or damaged.)
I didn't know that TV quality videos are that small.

 

[cleverhandle]

Yeah, of all the times not to be worried about storage space... I just bought a pair of 500GB Samsung's for $120 each. That's a freaking terabyte for $240!!! Even if you're broke and need to keep it under a hundred, you can pick up a 400GB Samsung for $85.

 

[Cogman]

I have all the MASH Dvds, I encode them with Xvid at a bitrate of about 1550 and audio of 128 MP3. The end result is a file that is 260 MB big for about 22 mins. That gives me an almost perfect copy, and if I wanted to settle for less I could reduce the quality down to a bitrate 1000 and 64 bit audio steam. And that still give a decent picture.

Of course, this is with double pass encoding, Most tuner cards will encode to MPEG2 which does take up a far amount of space to get the same quality. But I think you can configure Myth to compress archived video streams while Idle, so its not a huge deal.

 

[Emulex]

encode them with h.264 you'll get much less disk space, just requires much more cpu power dude. mpeg-4 is so last year