[mythtv-users] Anyone running a Sourced Based Distro?
Cecil Watson
cwatson at linkline.com
Thu Mar 3 02:37:28 UTC 2005
Thom Paine wrote:
>I am considering using a sourced based distro like sourcemage as my
>platform for myth, to see if it performs better on a lower end system
>running a really streamlined setup.
>
>Is anyone else running something like that? Does it run better or
>worse? I realize it will be much more work, getting all the stuff
>installed, but my hope is that I can get away with only the things I
>need to get myth to go, and that it will run alot faster than on
>something like Fedora.
>
>I did a test run on my laptop, and it was quite fast booting up. I
>used blackbox as the window manager and it was running in no time.
>
>Just looking for feedback.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
Good luck! Simply put processing audio and video requires serious
horsepower. We'd have a better idea if you'd given hardware details.
Some folks do have backends running on processor around 500 MHz, but
there are using PVR 350.
Regards,
Cecil
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