[mythtv-users] minimum CPU requirements for PVR-250

[Chris Osgood]

Not necessarily.  If you've got some other hardware acceleration (like a
XvMC capabile card; nVidia) then that might give you enough juice.

With XvMC my CPU usage drops to almost nothing.

The lowest system I've used is a Celeron 366/GeForceMX 440 and it worked
fine with the PVR and XvMC.   But I have no idea if this particular setup
would work.  Is that Cyrix a Socket7 type system or something newer?

--
// Chris


On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Brian Foddy wrote:

> On Saturday 03 January 2004 07:21 pm, Andy Skinn wrote:
> > I'm looking to build a MythTV box using a PVR-250.  I don't
<..snip..>
> > and decoding.
>
> With a 250, you need more cpu.  Not for recording, but for
> playback.  I'd guess 600+Mhz to playback a pvr250 recording
> at a reasonable resolution.  My old P2-450 could only
> handle 480x480 and not very well at that.  My new machine
> set to 640x480 but with much more cpu reserve gives a
> much improved quality.  The 350???  Can't help you there
> as I don't have one.
>
> Brian