[mythtv-users] Replacing my VCR with MythTV and a Celeron 550

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 22 October 2004 10:28, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2004 at 11:57 -0400, Eric Medlin wrote:
> > I have a Celeron 366 overclocked to 550 on an old Abit BM6
> > motherboard with 196megs of ram.  I also have an ATI 8500 for TV
> > out, Diamond mx300(aureal 2) sound card, and two 40gig harddrives
> > for storage.  I plan to compile gentoo from scratch to get all the
> > speed I can.  My main rig a P4 2.4 will help in compiling so I can
> > finish before next year.  My main question is can I use a bttv card
> > to record video at or higher than VHS quality with this computer.  I
> > don't need live TV.  I just want to record something and then later
> > play it back.  I know a PVR-250 or something would be better, but I
> > am trying to save money.  If it workes and I really like it I may
> > get a PVR-150 later when it works with linux and mythtv.
>
> I have a P3-650 system w/ 384MB of RAM and a bttv card, NVIDIA GFMX440
> for TV out.  I'm running a stock Debian 2.6.8 kernel & mostly stock
> packages.  In Live TV, I have to run 320x240, using RTJPEG, to avoid
> bogging down.  CPU usage is about 60-65%.  The visual quality is
> pretty crappy at that resolution.  Record-only is much better; I think
> I'm currently recording at 480x480.  The quality is decent.  No
> problems with playback.  I haven't gotten around to fiddling with the
> settings yet, to try to get optimal quality.

Note that a Celery 366 overclocked to 550 is a far cry from a P3 at 650. That 
Celery doesn't have SSE capabilities, which amounts to a sizeable performance 
hit for video encoding and decoding.

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

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