[mythtv-users] Taking the MythTV plunge

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed May 5 15:27:23 EDT 2004


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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 08:35, Roman Romaniuk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm about to take the MythTV plunge. Current plan is to use a MSI Mega
> PC 180 w/ a AMD 3K XP processor, 1G Ram and 120G hard disk local to the
> PC. Additional storage will be provided by a file server.

Like others have said, unless you're talking HDTV, that processor is gross 
overkill. You'll likely never have need for more than 512MB of RAM either.

> Satellite board is the SkyStar 2 DVB board. Initially I'm going to use
> the on-board nForce2 for TV out - but will probably migrate to a proper
> Video card with hardware MPEG 2 in the future.

Such as? And why? Decoding by a GF4MX on-board an nForce2 board is actually 
quite optimal, as far as CPU usage.

> Any comments on the hardware? Anything you'd do differently?

Much slower (and thus cooler) processor, half the RAM. I was running multiple 
tuners on an Athlon XP 1700 for a while. The only reason I bumped to a 3200 
was for HDTV. I still have only 512MB of RAM (64MB of which gets heisted by 
the on-board GF4MX).

> Which distro do people recommend? I've got a fair bit of experience as
> far as Linux goes - but most of it is in the embedded space.

I recommend using whatever distribution you're most comfortable with.

> What are the trade offs as far as MythTV goes?

It can be a big time-sink. But damn, its cool once you have it all 
working. ;-)

- -- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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