[mythtv-users] Dual HDTV Tuner Requirements

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 04 March 2005 22:05, Jonathan M. Cooper wrote:
> I've been reading that HDTV decoding takes a substantial amount of
> processing power.

Note that this is only an issue at playback time. Recording is more or less a 
simple matter of writing the incoming mpeg2 stream to disk, very little cpu 
usage.

> I was wondering if anyone has gotten 2 or more HDTV 
> tuner cards working with myth

2 HDTV tuner cards and a FireWire cable box here (and a few more analog 
tuners).

> and, if so, what the CPU and memory 
> requirements would be.

Not much difference from a system handling one HDTV tuner, though you may want 
extra cpu headroom if all commercial cutting runs on the same box you're 
viewing with. With recent HDTV playback performance improvements, I believe a 
3GHz P4 w/512MB of RAM and a GeForce FX 5200 or a 6200 should be sufficient 
for what you're after.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
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