[mythtv-users] Setup a celeron 400 box with mythtv

[papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu]

	I just tried a celeron 366 OC'd to 550 yesterday.  Playing a DVD mpeg
stream on a Mach64 (has XVideo support) took about 50% of the cpu.  I'm
planning on building a frontend out of this.  I used to use a dual Celeron
300->450 as a combination frontend/backend.  Using a bttv-based card, it was 
watchable if captured at 400x480, but it took 90% of once CPU for mythbackened 
to encode.  The other CPU was pretty much maxed out at playing the result, with 
myfrontend taking about 40%, and X taking about 40% cpu.

	Basically, it should be doable if you're either making a standalone
frontend, or *maybe* a backend/frontend if you've got a hardware mpeg encoder
card (read: PVR-[23]50 or M179).  The biggest wildcard in this setup is how
well the chipset on the motherboard is at doing fast/low-latency data
throughput.  Even though the CPU can handle it, if the rest of the components 
don't let the data through, it'll skip/jerk/etc.  

Hope that helps,
-Cory

 On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Nicola Ferri wrote:

> is there a way to setup a pentium celeron 400 with 196MB of ram with mythtv? 
> is possibile to switch encoding/decoding of live tv?
> 
> thanks,
> Nicola
> 
> 

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