[mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)

[Andrew Ingram]

The reason 500Mhz is close to minimum if you have a PVR250 is that, no
matter what your capture resolution, you are capturing at a bitrate of
16Mb/sec. That's 2MB/sec which is a hell of a lot of data to be grabbing
and decoding, a lot more than your average DIVX. 

Once MythTV supports the changing of the bitrate for the PVR250, a
500Mhz machine should be fine for playback of captured movies. I have a
450Mhz machine and it's just fractionally too slow for playback. You
might scrape it with a 500Mhz machine, but once we can lower bitrate,
there will be no problem.

Is there any word about when MythTV will support programmable bitrates
for the PVR250?

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
Sent: 30 May 2003 7:57 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)


That *might* just about do it if you use a PVR-250.  500MHz is close to
the minimum for playback.  I believe there are folks out there with
PVR-250's in machines near that speed; perhaps they could shed some more
light.

-JAC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Forrest Aldrich
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 2:40 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Basic requirements (hardware)
>
>
> I have an older Compaq 500mhz system, which I could cannibalize for a 
> project like this -- but from the MythTV pages, I'm presuming this 
> won't be powerful enough.
>
> Anyone have experience with machines of this nature.

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