[mythtv-users] Building HTPC with Mythtv on weak configuration

[Cory Papenfuss]

 	I did a similar thing at first, but with a dual Celeron 300->450. 
With a software-based (bttv) card, 400x480 was pushing it.  I never could 
test the PVR-250 with it, because the board (BP6... also a BX chipset 
IIRC) didn't see the card.  Something to do with PCI 2.1 vs. 2.2 or 
something like that.  It would probably have enough poop to do it (albeit 
slowly with the GUI, commercial flagging, etc) if it'll recognise the 
card.  The ram might be a bit on the low side, since mythtv frontend 
(based on QT, etc) it a bit memory-hungry.

 	I'm currently using a single PIII-800 with dual PVR-250's and an 
ATI Rage 128 vid card.  It works fine.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss							*
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 			*
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, FeNiX wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I want to turn my old computer to HTPC. I am thinking using linux with mythtv.
>
> Computer specs are:
>
> Celeron 400
> Asus P2B-F (BX chipset)
> 64 MB SDRAM
> Matrox G400 DH
>
> I want to be able to record and live pause tv program. I am thinking of 
> buying Hauppauge PVR-250. Is this enough? Maybe i should replace cpu 
> with P3 say 800MHz. Does someone have similar configuration? Is it 
> better to buy tv tuner without hardware mpeg2 encoding and invest more 
> in motherboard/cpu power? Thanks in advance...
>