[mythtv-users] Enough horsepower?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Fri Jul 22 15:32:33 EDT 2005


Lonnie Borntreger wrote:

>Is a P3-500 with 256M RAM enough to handle a PVR-500?  It would just be
>a backend, so it would max at recording two shows at once.
>
>I could bump the memory a bit, but am stuck with this processor.  Trying
>to find a use for the system other than the dumpster.
>
>Lonnie "the old gray matter just ain't what it use to be" Borntreger
>  
>
Should be fine.  the PVR-500 is doing all the work as a backend only.  
Your commercial flagging will be slower as will any transcoding you do 
but otherwise it should be fine.

Kevin


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