[mythtv-users] Hardware ideas

[J. Donavan Stanley]

David Wood wrote:

>Hi Timo!
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>On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Timo Boettcher wrote:
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>>>So far it sounds like an Athlon XP 2xxx+,
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>>Why that big cpu? I have two pvr350's, and my p3-933 can deal with it
>>very good (even though I only use the pvrs as encoder, and use a
>>regular graphicscard for playback, with the cpu as decoder (my display
>>has a dvi in))
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>Good question. I'd certainly like to use less powerful stuff; save $$$,
>electricity, noise etc. I think it came out of:
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>1) Box will be both a front+back end
>2) Live TV
>3) No PVR-350 TV-out due to driver stability issues, so no hardware decode
>4) Also need to playback DivX/Xvid/younameit
>5) Was considering software encode as well (i.e. AverTV etc rather than
>PVR-250/350), though now it sounds like that's not worth it.
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Don't forget transcoding, commercial flagging, CD/DVD rips all of which 
take CPU.