G4 450 as PVR

[redgsr]

Hi All,

I've inherited a G4 450MHz Sawtooth, and intend on using it as a PVR / Media Centre type device but have a few questions.

First - does it have enought grunt? I'm assuming that whatever capture device I get will need to do the MPEG encoding, but is 450MHz enough? It does have 768MB RAM which is good.

2nd - Is it best to go to EyeTV or is there an Internal PCI TV Tuner / MPEG capture solution that works on MacOS X, and also has programmable PVR-style software. I'm in Australia, and as such investigating using DVB-T Digital Television a la the EyeTV 410, but I suppose Analog broadcast is fine too.

3rd - Is traditional 802.11b Airport fast enough to stream video to an EyeHome (or similar) or will I need to upgrade it to G. There's a possibility it will be hardwired to the EyeHome but not 100%

Cheers,

[WiseWeasel]

Here's what you need:
http://www.miglia.com/products/video/alchemytv/
I'd suggest the G4/G5 version... Anyone have this? Any comments? The EyeTV might be better for some things, like watching content from your computer on the TV using EyeHome or whatever.

[londor]

If you are interested in DVB digital TV check this out:

http://www.defyne.org/dvb/