[mythtv-users] lightweight machines

[Justin Gombos]

* Joseph Caputo <jcaputo1 at comcast.net> [2005-03-17 14:59]:
>
> I doubt you'll be able to watch LiveTV on a PII-400 or whatever it
> is you have.  That's a pretty lightweight box to try and serve as a
> combined backend/frontend IMHO, even *with* Xv.

Yeah I know.. it's just so I can get a good idea of where PVRs
currently are, and so I can learn how to build these things.  If I'm
impressed with the software and confident in my ability to build a
good PVR, I'll buy better hardware.  I'm thinking I can get multimedia
cards that are good enough that the P2 will be sufficient.  The brunt
of the work should be on the mpeg4 encoder/decoder.