[mythtv-users] MythTV on older system?

[Mark J. Small]

I currently run mythtv on a P2 333MHz machine.  I use a matrox MJPEG card 
(G400+Rainbow Runner G) to do the video capture.  This gives me hardware 
encoding, but the hardware decoding doesn't seem to work with this 
combination.  Recording barely increases my cpu load.

I have to use horribly low quality for livetv, since software decoding of 
mjpeg takes a TON of cpu.  But for scheduled recording, I use a better 
quality, and automatically transcode to mpeg4.  I find it odd that mpeg4 
takes much less power to decode than mjpeg.

Mark

> > On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 20:49, Your Name wrote:
> >> Does anyone here think theres any chance I can get MythTV, or another
> >> Linux tv
> >> app running on a 350MHz Pentium II?  I don't need time shifting or
> >> anything like that, just tv viewing.  Hard drive and RAM are not an
> >> issue, I just want
> >> to know if I can use this old system for Tv viewing without major
> >> upgrades. Thanks
> >> -Brendan
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