Prefered Hardware vs Bottlenecks

[arklab2]

Hi;
I’m glad to see such a product developed.
As I don’t yet have a TV Tuner card, I’m interested in avoiding creating a bottleneck in my system.

I would assume the “bottleneck” currently is the TV Tuner card, as well as the recording codecs and compression schemes used.

Which tuner cards seem to be most efficient at this time?
Would an IDE RAID0 (striped) array be helpful? (I currently have 20G 7200RPM Ultra66 drive).
Would more than 128M RAM help?
Would a 900MHz CPU help (this app)? (I am using a 450MHz now.)

Can you recommend a remote control solution to begin recording from another room (where the TV is located)? (I have a Matrox G400 dualhead, and will attach a 2.4GHz wireless transmitter to the TV to watch DVD’s from my PC’s DVD-ROM) Do any TV tuner cards have remote control built in?

Well, I think that’s about enough questions for one post!

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

[rkuo]

Hi, ark! It's good to see your questions.

Of course, all of the hardware upgrades you mentioned could help in theory. The ram and hard drive upgrades wouldn't do too much to aid the recording process itself. The CPU could help...recording and playback is a pretty processor intensive right now and a faster CPU will definitely do some good.

Controlling the PVS via a standard remote is not something we do at the present time...but we've thought of it. It's on our eventual list of things to do. Some Hauppauge and Avermedia cards do have IR inputs and remotes that you can use in conjunction with their bundled applications. We do expect Avermedia support in our next release of the software.