[mythtv-users] Minimum hardware requirements for music-only frontend?

[Andrew Close]

On 5/4/05, Christopher David Petersen
<christopher.david.petersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking about using an old laptop for a music-only frontend and I have
> a few questions: 
>   
> 1) Is a PII 366 and 128 MB really enough to run Linux and a MythTV frontend?
> How about a Pentium 200 MMX with 96MB? 
> 2) What's an easy to install distro that has a small enough memory footprint
> for 128 MB? For 96MB? 
> 3) Can 802.11b handle streaming FLAC audio files via SMB from the backend? 
>   
>   
> Having read the documentation and searched the list, I feel this machine
> could do it, but before purchasing it, I'd like to get some empirical data. 

Hi Christopher,

no offense, but be prepared to be flamed. :)
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.1
there is a rough list of minimum requirements about a 1/8 way down  the page.

your PII 366 may be able to handle recording and playback
simultaneously if you are using one of the pvr cards.  you could
probably use this machine as a backend if all your cards were
prv-X50's.  i'd guess you'd need to bump up the RAM though.
you 'may' be able to use the P200MMX for a backend as well since the
pvr cards do all the encoding/decoding (?) for you.  but i doubt it
would work as a front end.

PIII with 256MB RAM is the 'recommended' minimum.  YMMV.
good luck :)