I originally had planned on basing my upcoming HTPC project on my older Celeron 600@927mhz, until I figured it wouldn't really have enough processing power to do the job. I figurd I'd probably build it around that for the most basic tasks until I could afford to upgrade to a new mobo/cpu (probably a xp2400 or 2500) I wanted to go with a mini-atx board but the more and more I revise my plans I think that solution will leave me short on PCI slots. I came across some guy in europe's website detailing his "mediacenter" which was basically a Higher end P4 server, some MP3 hardware interfaces for his home stereo system, and a 1.0ghz celeron box set up in his rack. He expalined how thew the celeron didn't have enough power for DIVX/DVD decoding and how thi s card was added to take care of those duties. I looked into the card further to find that it took care of all these duties allowing the cpu to run at a%0 load. So I figured it might be a descent approach to reusing my celeron. My only question is whther or not I'll be able to use it with a TV capture card. If anyone has any insight to this I'd really appreciate the feedback. Basically I'm looking for my HTPC to do the following
1)Playback of DVD's fed to a HDTV monitor
2)playback of DIVX/SVCD/VCD movies
3)PVR duties (recording tv shows, time shifting etc)
4)MP3 playback (maybe...I'm currently using building another Mp3 server using my old p2400)
5)deinterlacer/scaler for my LD player and other analogue compoanats
1)Playback of DVD's fed to a HDTV monitor
2)playback of DIVX/SVCD/VCD movies
3)PVR duties (recording tv shows, time shifting etc)
4)MP3 playback (maybe...I'm currently using building another Mp3 server using my old p2400)
5)deinterlacer/scaler for my LD player and other analogue compoanats
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